Four-Wave Mixing Characteristics with Optimum Time-Delays Between Pump-Probe Pulses in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Author

Das, Narottam Kumar ; Nemai Chandra Karmakar ; Yamayoshi, Yasuhiro ; Kawaguchi, Hitoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic.

fYear

2006

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

40

Abstract

We have analyzed the four-wave mixing (FWM) characteristics with optimum time-delays between pump and probe pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) by the finite-difference beam propagation method (FD-BPM). The study of FWM characteristics with optimum time-delays between pump and probe pulses in SOAs has the importance to achieve the high FWM conversion efficiency and to clarify the timing jitter. From the simulations, we have clarified that the FWM conversion efficiency increases with optimum time-delays between pump and probe pulses. In the experiment, we have found the same tendency. Therefore, we have obtained an excellent agreement between the simulation and experimental results of FWM characteristics with optimum time-delays between pulses in SOAs.

Keywords

finite difference methods; multiwave mixing; optical pulse generation; probes; semiconductor optical amplifiers; timing jitter; finite-difference beam propagation method; four-wave mixing characteristics; optimum time-delays; pump-probe pulses; semiconductor optical amplifiers; timing jitter; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical computing; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. ICECE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

98432-3814-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2006.355284

Filename

4178402