Polarisation Dependent Dynamics in Bulk Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Author

Philippe, S. ; Bradley, A.L. ; Surre, F. ; Landais, P. ; Kennedy, B. ; Martinez-Rosas, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Trinity Coll., Dublin

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

160

Abstract

A free space contra-propagation set-up is implemented and a dynamic pump-probe study of the eigenmodes of a SOA in the picosecond regime is undertaken. The time-resolved probe transmission of the TE and TM modes of the device is measured for the co and cross-polarised cases as a function of pump pulse energy. The relative contributions of interband and intraband processes to the gain compression are studied, as well as the coupling between the TE and TM modes. The high gain compression due to intraband effects observed in the TETE case is of particular interest for ultrafast all-optical switching

Keywords

eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; high-speed optical techniques; laser modes; light polarisation; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; eigenmodes; gain compression; intraband effects; polarisation dependent dynamics; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time-resolved probe transmission; ultrafast all-optical switching; Delay effects; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tellurium; gain; optical switching; polarisation; pump-probe; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248362

Filename

4013758