… are very well suited for compact tunable lasers and broadband optical amplifiers. All organic
semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers are currently optically pumped, meaning that …

… passive optical network (WDM-PON). Twophoton absorption in a semiconductor optical
amplifier … Semiconductor optical amplifiers and superluminescent diodes (SLDs) are high power …

… The high gain of organic semiconductors has several consequences: very compact lasers
can be … , and the materials can also be used to make compact optical amplifiers (section 4.2). …

… Amplifiers do not have a threshold in the way that lasers do and so optical switching of an
amplifier … In this letter, we show high speed optical switching of a polymer optical amplifier, use …

… new class of organic semiconductor as an optical gain medium. … These values are comparable
with other organic semiconductors, … show promise as a gain medium for optical amplifiers. …

… Much of the experimental work on semiconductor optical amplifiers has been carried out
using the InGaAsP material system with the optical gain centered around 1.3 Ilm or 1.55 Ilm.6-…

… The second and arguably most intensively investigated type of organic semiconductors
for development of lasers and recently also of optical amplifiers are the conjugated polymers. …

… devices based on organic semiconductors have the potential … to the semiconductor optical
amplifiers currently widely used … (ie, single-pass) optical amplifier based on the conjugated …

… Herein, based on high-Q microcavity OSLD, we present an electrically pumped vertical-cavity
organic semiconductor optical amplifier and its light gain amplification phenomenon. …

… can be realized by employing photo-generated changes in carrier density of semiconductor
optical amplifiers (SOAs). SOAs are attractive as such a nonlinear element, since they …