Title :
Electrically and optically controllable optical delay in a quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Su, Hui ; Kondratko, Piotr ; Chuang, Shun Lien
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Abstract :
An optical delay variable between 0 to 161 ps with GHz bandwidth is demonstrated in an InGaAsP quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier and modeled by population oscillation and nearly degenerate four-wave-mixing effects for the first time.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; electro-optical effects; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; multiwave mixing; optical delay lines; oscillations; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum wells; InGaAsP; electrically controllable optical delay; four-wave-mixing effects; optical amplifier; optically controllable optical delay; oscillation; quantum-well semiconductor; time 0 ps to 161 ps; Delay; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Quantum wells; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; 140.4480(Optical amplifiers); 230.1150 (All-optical devices);
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629095
