Monolithically integrated MZI-SOA configuration for polarization independent optical phase conjugation with pump filtering

Author

Girardin, F. ; Leuthold, J. ; Besse, P.A. ; Gamper, E. ; Vogt, W. ; Guekos, G. ; Melchior, H.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1998

fDate

4-8 Oct. 1998

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Demonstration of polarization independent optical phase conjugation by four-wave mixing in a monolithic Mach Zehnder interferometric semiconductor optical amplifier (MZI-SOA) configuration. An integrated filtering mechanism for the pump-signal enhances the conjugate-to-pump ratio by 15 dB compared to the single SOA case.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; multiwave mixing; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; conjugate-to-pump ratio; four-wave mixing; integrated filtering mechanism; monolithic Mach Zehnder interferometric semiconductor optical amplifier; monolithically integrated MZI-SOA configuration; polarization independent optical phase conjugation; pump filtering; pump-signal; single SOA case; Filtering; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1998. ISLC 1998 NARA. 1998 IEEE 16th International

Conference_Location

Nara, Japan

ISSN

0899-9406

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4223-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.1998.734126

Filename

734126