• DocumentCode
    3528110
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528583
  • Filename
    4528583