Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor optical amplifiers for high speed all-optical switching

Author

Yong Liu ; Xiu Zheng ; Ligong Chen ; Rongguo Lu ; Yali Zhang ; Shangjian Zhang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Electron. Thin Films & Integrated Devices, Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

6-9 July 2013

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are investigated. We focus on the nonlinear gain, phase and chirp dynamics that can be used for high speed all-optical switching. Ultrafast component in the phase dynamics is observed. We explain this phenomenon by using a numerical model that includes the impact of sub-picosecond intra-band effects in the SOA. In addition, we also investigate the chirp properties, and analyze the influences of chirp dynamics upon the detuned-filtering-based optical switches that can realize more than 160 Gbit/s operating speed. The results are useful for SOA-based high speed all-optical switching in photonic networks.

Keywords

optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA-based high speed all-optical switching; chirp properties; detuned-filtering-based optical switches; nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear gain; semiconductor optical amplifiers; sub-picosecond intra-band effects; ultrafast component; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Ultrafast optics; All-optical switching; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2013 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0464-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAIT.2013.6621472

Filename

6621472