Numerical analysis of pulse pedestal and dynamic chirp formation on picosecond modelocked laser pulses after propagation through a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Connelly, Michael J. ; Clarke, Aisling M. ; Anandarajah, Prince M. ; Barry, Liam P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Limerick Univ., Ireland

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

130

Abstract

A numerical analysis, based on a modified Schrodinger equation, of the formation of pulse pedestals and dynamic chirp formation on picosecond pulses after propagation through a semiconductor optical amplifier is presented. The numerical predictions are confirmed by an experiment that utilises the frequency resolved optical gating technique for the amplified pulse characterisation.

Keywords

Schrodinger equation; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; numerical analysis; semiconductor optical amplifiers; amplified pulse characterisation; dynamic chirp formation; frequency resolved optical gating technique; modified Schrodinger equation; numerical analysis; picosecond modelocked laser pulse; pulse pedestal; semiconductor optical amplifier; Chirp; Frequency; Laser modes; Numerical analysis; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Schrodinger equation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, 2005. NUSOD '05. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9149-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2005.1518169

Filename

1518169