Polarization independent optical phase conjugation with pump-signal filtering in a monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer semiconductor optical amplifier configuration

Author

Leuthold, J. ; Girardin, F. ; Besse, P.A. ; Gamper, E. ; Guekos, G. ; Melchior, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

10

Issue

11

fYear

1998

Firstpage

1569

Lastpage

1571

Abstract

Demonstration of polarization independent optical phase conjugation by four-wave mixing in a monolithic Mach-Zehnder interferometric semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) configuration. An integrated filtering mechanism for the pump-signal enhances the conjugate-to-pump ratio by 15 dB compared to the single SOA case.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; multiwave mixing; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; conjugate-to-pump ratio; four-wave mixing; integrated filtering mechanism; monolithic Mach-Zehnder interferometric semiconductor optical amplifier; monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer semiconductor optical amplifier configuration; polarization independent optical phase conjugation; pump-signal enhances; pump-signal filtering; single SOA case; Filtering; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.726752

Filename

726752