Amplified spontaneous emission noise of wavelength converters exploiting cross-gain and cross-phase modulation in semiconductor-laser amplifiers

Author

Obermann, K. ; Kindt, S. ; Koltchanov, I. ; Breuer, D. ; Petermann, K. ; Diet, S. ; Ludwig, R. ; Weber, H.G.

Author_Institution

Fachgebiet Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

13-18 Oct. 1996

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

30

Abstract

The amplified spontaneous emission of a saturated semiconductor-laser amplifier is studied analytically and experimentally for co- as well as counterpropagating input waves. It is shown, that copropagating injection can significantly reduce the noise level.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; laser noise; laser theory; optical frequency conversion; optical saturation; optical transmitters; phase modulation; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM network; amplified spontaneous emission noise; co-propagating input waves; copropagating injection; counterpropagating input waves; cross-gain; cross-phase modulation; laser beams; laser noise; laser theory; noise level; saturated semiconductor-laser amplifier; semiconductor-laser amplifiers; wavelength converters; Charge carrier density; Chirp modulation; Intensity modulation; Noise level; Noise shaping; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1996., 15th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Haifa, Israel

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3163-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.1996.553733

Filename

553733