Title :
Cross gain saturation in semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Fan, H. ; Wu, C. ; Dutta, N.K. ; Koren, U. ; Chen, C.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
We have carried out gain saturation experiments using pulsed pump and probe beams derived from gain switched DFB semiconductor optical amplifier lasers. The widths of both pump and probe pulses were 35 ps. The gain saturation of the probe takes place only when there is temporal overlap of the pump and probe beams in the amplifier
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical pumping; optical saturation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 35 ps; cross gain saturation; gain saturation; gain saturation experiments; gain switched DFB semiconductor optical amplifier lasers; probe beams; pulsed pump; semiconductor optical amplifier; temporal overlap; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739539
