Abstract
Tapered-waveguide quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (TW-QDSOAs) have been modeled using numerical calculation of the rate and propagation equations in this article and the amplification characteristics and dynamics of pulse propagation in non-tapered QDSOA, linear, and exponential TW-QDSOA structures have been studied and compared in detail. It has been found that TW-QDSOAs apply less distortion to the amplified pulse and have greater optical gain than non-tapered QDSOA. In TW-QDSOAs, the amplified pulse becomes much less broadening and this amount is negligible, therefore the pulse bit rate can be increased. While the amplified pulse in a non-tapered QDSOA is much broadening than the TW-QDSOAs. The carrier density distribution and dependency of the amplifier gain to the output energy for both non-tapered and tapered structures have been studied. The carrier density and gain in non-tapered QDSOA decreases more than TW-QDSOAs, indicating that the tapered amplifiers are saturated at higher input energies. Our obtained results agree well with those previously obtained for conventional tapered amplifiers.
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