Analysis and Design of an Active Integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and External Feedback Loop for All-Optical Self-Switching

Author

Boucher, Yann G. ; Fares, Abdel-Fattah

Author_Institution

ÉNIB/RESO Laboratory (EA 3380), CS 73862, F-29238 Brest Cedex 3, France. boucher@enib.fr

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

24-28 April 2006

Firstpage

2042

Lastpage

2046

Abstract

We investigate the spectral properties of an active integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) inserted in its arms and provided with an external feedback loop. The whole system is described in the frame of an original extended Scattering Matrix Formalism including internal sources, that takes into account the saturation of each active medium under the influence of both signal and Amplified Spontaneous Emission.

Keywords

Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE); Extended Transfer Matrix Formalism; Generalized Transfer Function; Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI); Optical Switching; Scattering Parameters; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA); Feedback loop; Nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical feedback; Optical scattering; Radiative recombination; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission; Transfer functions; Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE); Extended Transfer Matrix Formalism; Generalized Transfer Function; Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI); Optical Switching; Scattering Parameters; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies, 2006. ICTTA '06. 2nd

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9521-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684715

Filename

1684715