Contents:

• Progress in Optical Fiber Amplifiers (S Sudo)
• Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers for Multiwavelength Lightwave Networks: Impact of the Non-Flat Gain Spectrum (E L Goldstein & L Eskildsen)
• Reliability of High Power Pump Lasers for Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (M Fukuda)
• InP-Based Optical Switch Arrays Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (T Kirihara & H Inoue)
• Ultra-Fast Optical Time Demultiplexers Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (K I Kang et al.)
• Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Traveling-Wave Amplifiers for Wavelength Conversion in All-Optical Networks (K J Vahala et al.)
• Gain Dynamics and Associated Nonlinearities in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (J M Wiesenfeld)