Intraband gain dynamics in bulk semiconductor optical amplifiers: measurements and simulations

Author

Occhi, Lorenzo ; Ito, Yoshitaka ; Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ; Schares, Laurent ; Eckner, Jürg ; Guekos, George

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

1/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

60

Abstract

We investigate experimentally and numerically the gain recovery time and gain compression resulting from intraband effects induced by sub-picosecond optical pulses in bulk semiconductor optical amplifiers. With the help of data produced by pump-probe measurements, the dependence of the intraband gain dynamics on pulse energy, device bias current, and length is discussed. The simulation results show a good agreement with the experimental data

Keywords

carrier mobility; optical hole burning; optical pulse compression; optical pumping; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; bulk semiconductor optical amplifiers; device bias current; gain compression; gain recovery time; intraband gain dynamics; optical transmitters; pulse energy; pump-probe measurements; simulation results; sub-picosecond optical pulses; Gain measurement; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical signal processing; Optical variables control; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.973319

Filename

973319