Four-wave mixing among sub-picosecond optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier and its applications to optical sampling

被引：6

作者：

Kawaguchi, H ^{[1
]}

Inoue, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Yamagata Univ, Fac Engn, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992, Japan

来源：

PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES VI, PTS 1 AND 2 | 1998年 / 3283卷

关键词：

optical mixing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; frequency conversion; quantum well devises; optical phase conjugation; optical propagation in nonlinear media; nonlinear optics; nonlinear wave propagation; optical sampling;

D O I：

10.1117/12.316698

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We have demonstrated the highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing among sub-picosecond optical pulses in a 1.3 mu m multiple-quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). We could directly measure the four-wave mixing signal in the output spectrum by current pulse pumping of the device. We achieved a high conversion efficiency of over 10 % at a frequency conversion range of less than 1THz. The limitation of conversion efficiency due to the gain saturation of the SOA was effectively overcome by using the short optical pulses. Preliminary results of optical sampling with picosecond time resolution are also described.

引用

页码：477 / 484

页数：4