Measurement of ultrafast cross-gain saturation dynamics of a semiconductor optical amplifier using two-color pump-probe technique

Author

Katayama, Takeo ; Kawaguchi, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yamagata Univ., Japan

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

855

Lastpage

857

Abstract

The gain dynamics of a multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier with wide gain-bandwidth are measured by a two-color pump-probe technique using optical pulses with a pulse duration on the order of 100 fs. The short optical pulses are generated by selecting narrow spectral components from compressed supercontinuum optical pulses using optical filters.

Keywords

optical filters; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturation; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; compressed supercontinuum optical pulses; gain dynamics; multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier; optical filters; optical pulse generation; optical pulses; semiconductor optical amplifier; two-color pump probe technique; ultrafast cross-gain saturation dynamics; wide gain-bandwidth; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.823701

Filename

1269818