Packaged hybrid III-V/silicon SOA

We present a hybrid III-V/silicon SOA, mounted in a planar package, with a fiber-to-fiber gain up to 10 dB, maximum internal gain of 28±2 dB, an internal noise figure of 10-11 dB and an output saturation power around 9 dBm.

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