Title :
Contradirectional four-wave mixing in 1.51 mu m near-travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier
Author :
Favre, F. ; Le Guen, D.
Author_Institution :
CNET, Lannion, France
Abstract :
Experiments on contradirectional nondegenerate four-wave mixing (NDFWM) in a 1.51 mu m nonresonant near-travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier are presented. Experimental results are in qualitative agreement with a theoretical model assuming the NDFWM process is mainly due to carrier pulsation at the beat frequency of copropagating waves in the amplifier.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; semiconductor junction lasers; 1.51 micron; beat frequency; carrier pulsation; contradirectional nondegenerate four-wave mixing; copropagating waves; near-travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19890704
