Buying Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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TOPTICA EAGLEYARD offers a varienty of tapered amplifiers in different package type. The miniTA is one of the newst innovations. The miniTA has a fiber-coupled input and collimated output beam and is available in an optimized butterfly package with 14 thicker pins. This hermetically sealed housing is particularly advantageous in industrial applications, as the thicker pins guarantee an ideal supply of power. Furthermore, the forming of the beam, as well as thermal management, are also integrated. Users can enjoy the easy plug-and-play aspect of the fiber plug of the seed laser.

Innolume offers a wide range of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) for the 780 – 1310 nm range with a small signal gain of up to 40 dB and a bandwidth of up to 110 nm. Special types of Innolume’s SOAs, called Booster Optical Amplifiers (BOAs), reach output powers of up to 550 mW and saturation output powers up to 22 dBm. Products are equipped with tilted waveguides and anti-reflective coatings to minimize optical feedback, and are available in various packaging options ranging from 14-pin SOA modules to alternative chip placements, including on submounts or as a bare die.

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RPMC’s SOAs deliver high output power in the hundreds of milliwatts at 1.3 µm and “eye-safe” 1.5 µm, with broad bandwidth and up to ≈30 dB gain for effective amplification in optical comms, plus cost-effective, narrow linewidth SLM options for spectral purity.

Fast response times enable real-time signal amplification in high-speed comms and LIDAR, amplifying optical signals without electrical conversion for minimal loss and high efficiency, in compact 14-pin butterfly and TO-9 packages for easy integration.

Versatile, cost-effective, and polarization-independent, they suit telecom, LIDAR, spectroscopy, and large-scale deployments, supporting nonlinear processing for advanced high-resolution spectroscopy applications.

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TOPTICA offers tapered semiconductor optical amplifier systems and amplified laser systems with the widest spectral coverage and highest power: between 660 nm and 1495 nm with single mode emission and powers up to 4 W. Tunable, single frequency, narrow linewidth and convenient to control and operate.

Sacher Lasertechnik has tapered amplifier diodes emitting between 730 nm and 1180 nm, with up to 3 W of output power and high gain. Free-space and fiber-pigtailed versions are available.

SHIPS TODAY : AeroDIODE offers various SOA (Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers) modules in a butterfly package covering the 750–1650 nm wavelength range. The SOAs have all high gain (in the 25–35 dB range) and high output power (in the 20–23 dB range). A special SOA-based high-speed intensity modulator and optical switch is also offered as a turn-key solution. Key features are high speed (down to 1 ns rise/fall time), high dynamic range (>48 dB), high extinction ratio (>50 dB) and an easy to use graphical user interface with multiple software libraries (LabVIEW, Python etc.). AeroDIODE also offers the SOA driver alone in either CW or pulsed configuration.

See also our white paper/tutorial on fiber-coupled modulators.