Highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing with picosecond pulses in a quantum-dash waveguide

Author

Leesti, B. ; Zilkie, A.J. ; Aitchison, J.S. ; Mojahedi, M. ; Smith, P.W.E. ; Wang, R.H. ; Rotter, T.J. ; Yang, C. ; Stintz, A. ; Malloy, K.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

773

Abstract

This letter reports the wavelength up-conversion of picosecond pulses by four-wave mixing (FWM) in a quantum-dash semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) operating near 1550 nm. The conversion efficiency is measured up to 3.9-THz detuning, and a maximum of -18 dB is achieved up to 2.5 THz. Results show that quantum-dash SOAs achieve relatively efficient wavelength conversion at large detuning.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; waveguide lasers; SOA; conversion efficiency; detuning; nondegenerate four-wave mixing; picosecond pulses; quantum-dash semiconductor optical amplifiers; quantum-dash waveguide; wavelength upconversion; Four-wave mixing; Optical attenuators; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Quantum dots; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8557-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363468

Filename

1363468