Title :
Ultrafast pulse compression by two-photon gain in a semiconductor waveguide
Author :
Nevet, Amir ; Hayat, Alex ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We demonstrate experimentally compression of femtosecond-scale pulses by two-photon gain in an electrically-driven AlGaAs waveguide. Dynamic control of pulse width from 240 to 140 fs is achieved by varying the current injection levels.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; optical pulse compression; two-photon processes; AlGaAs; current injection levels; dynamic control; electrically-driven waveguide; femtosecond-scale pulses; semiconductor waveguide; time 240 fs to 140 fs; two-photon gain; ultrafast pulse compression; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse compression; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Semiconductor device measurement; Temperature measurement; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
