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Superluminescent diodes reduce coherence noise and enable the user to acquire high-precision measurement. So it is used in sensing fields, including photo-application measurement and medical images. Whereas, LEDs are usually considered light sources because they emit light waves without any liquid medium. Further, LDs are essentially laser diodes thus acting as point light sources. Here are some of the key differences between Superluminescent Diodes, Light emitting diodes, and laser diodes: 1. Emitting State: LD: Laser diodes have 2 reflecting coatings in which one of them prevails over the other to maintain the signal. Thus, the end facet reflectivity of one side is greater than the opposite. SLD: Superluminescent diodes have both ends facets with non-reflecting coating. Instead of reflection, the input gets absorbed. LED: While the other 2 maintained a unidirectional flow, LED arrangements are rather special, at an angle of 90 degrees. 2. Emitted Light: LD: LDs emit stimulated em...

Since semiconductor optical amplifiers have special properties such as low power consumption, wavelength flexibility and nonlinearities, it is important in the development and optimization of electronic devices. It has major applications in optical reflections and related sectors, let us take a look at some of them: 1. Direct Signal Amplification: Signal amplification refers to increasing the strength of the signal. Long-distance signal transmission via optical arrangement is prone to power loss, due to constant optical reflection. Semiconductor optical amplifiers help to mitigate these losses and continue the signal by amplifying the signal strength. 2. External Modulation: SOA works as an efficient modulator. Modulating refers to the process of superimposing the amplitude, frequency, etc., parameters of the wave onto another wave. Thus external modulation is one of the primary applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers. 3. Optical Pulse Generation and Manipulation: Any impulse...