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Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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The authors clearly never proof read the book. Worse, neither did the publisher, World Scientific. As a result, there are numerous distracting errors. Quite pervasive. Like "The majority carries are holes in the p-cladding layer ...". Carries should be carriers. Then there is "Epitaxial growth of amplifier materials are described in Chapter 4". Another example is "The commercial use of semiconductor optical amplifiers are projected to be in the form...". All these examples were drawn just from the Introduction, which is not encouraging. Lots more in the rest of the text.

As to the book's topic, it describes semiconductor optical amplifiers as closely related to, but distinct from semiconductor lasers. The key difference is that the SOA does not have the multiple reflections that lasers use to boost the overall gain.

Over half the book is mostly about issues that could well pertain to general semiconductor design and theory. The meat of the text comes towards the end, when there is explanation of the ways you can use SOAs. Especially to aid optical logic, with its inherently fast switching speeds.