Measurement of the stimulated carrier lifetime in semiconductor optical amplifiers by four-wave mixing of polarized ASE noise

被引：9

作者：

Hunziker, G ^{[1
]}

Paiella, R ^{[1
]}

Vahala, KJ ^{[1
]}

Koren, U ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] LUCENT TECHNOL,HOLMDEL,NJ 07733

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 1997年 / 9卷 / 07期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

optical saturation; semiconductor lasers; stimulated emission; optical amplifiers; optical frequency conversion; optical mixers;

D O I：

10.1109/68.593343

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 present a simple experiment aimed at measuring the stimulated carrier lifetime in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's). The technique relies on polarization-resolved nearly degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) of a laser source with an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise source. The method can quickly characterize the bandwidth performance of active layers for application in a cross-gain or cross-phase wavelength converter.

引用

页码：907 / 909

页数：3

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