Wide-Band Polarization-Insensitive High-Output-Power Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Based on Thin Tensile-Strained Bulk InGaAs

A polarization-insensitive semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with a very thin active tensile-strained InGaAs bu/k has been fabricated.The polarization sensitivity of the amplifier gain is less than 1 dB over both the entire range of driving current and the 3dB optical bandwidth of more than 8Onto.For optical signals of 1550nm wavelength,the SOA exhibits a high saturation output power 7.6dBm together with a low noise figure of 7.SdB, fibre-to-fibre gain of 11.5dB,and low polarization sensitivity of 0.5dB.Additionally,at the gain peak 1520nm,the fibre-to-fibre gain is measured to be 14.1 dB.