Highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing in uniform and lambda/4-shifted DFB lasers

被引:15
作者
Chi, JWD [1 ]
Shore, KA [1 ]
LeBihan, J [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV WALES,SCH ELECT ENGN & COMP SYST,BANGOR LL57 1UT,GWYNEDD,WALES
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
distributed feedback lasers; frequency conversion; nonlinear optics; optical mixing; semiconductor device modeling; semiconductor lasers; wavelength-division multiplexing;
D O I
10.1109/3.641317
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
A theoretical investigation of highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing (HNDFWM) in uniform and quarter-wave-shifted distributed feedback, (DFB) lasers in the weak injection regime has been performed using a numerical analysis of the coupled-wave equations, The effects of carrier spatial and spectral hole burning, carrier heating, and longitudinally variable pump field above the laser threshold are included, Pump-probe detunings up to 1.5 THz are investigated, It is found that, for small and moderate DFB coupling coefficients, the conjugate wave can be generated in a bandwidth of similar to 1 THz with an efficiency of -20 dB or more, compared to the injected probe power.
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页码:2011 / 2020
页数:10
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