Title :
Novel Chirp-Enhanced Tunable Fast Light of Ultra-Short Pulses in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
Author :
Pesala, Bala ; Sedgwick, F.G. ; Uskov, A.V. ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Large tunable advance and delay are demonstrated by varying the sign and magnitude of the linear chirp of 440 fs pulses using ultrafast nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifiers, for the first time.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser tuning; nonlinear optics; semiconductor optical amplifiers; chirp-enhanced tunable fast light; linear chirp; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time 440 fs; ultrafast nonlinearities; ultrashort pulses; Chirp; Delay; Fast light; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528583
