Design of Photonic Crystal Semiconductor Optical Amplifier With Polarization Independence

Author

Zhang, Yejin ; Zheng, Wanhua ; Aiyi, Qi ; Qu, Hongwei ; Peng, Hongling ; Xie, Shizhong ; Chen, Lianghui

Author_Institution

Nano-Optoelectron. Lab., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Volume

28

Issue

22

fYear

2010

Firstpage

3207

Lastpage

3211

Abstract

Slow-light effects in photonic crystal (PC) waveguides can enhance light-mater interaction near the photonic band edge, which can be used to design a short cavity length semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). In this paper, a novel SOA based on slow-light effects in PC waveguides (PCSOA) is presented. To realize the amplification of the optical signal with polarization independence, a PCSOA is designed with a compensated structure. The cascaded structure leads to a balanced amplification to the TE and TM polarized light.

Keywords

optical design techniques; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; SOA; TE polarized light; TM polarized light; amplification; light-matter interaction; photonic band edge; photonic crystal waveguides; polarization independence; semiconductor optical amplifier; slow light effects; Finite difference methods; Indexes; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slow light; Photonic crystal (PC); polarization independence; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); slow light;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2088108

Filename

5604633