Wavelength shifting by four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Vahala, Kerry ; Zhou, Jianhui ; Geraghty, David ; Lee, Robert ; Newkirk, Michael ; Miller, Barry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1995

Firstpage

39

Abstract

Summary form only given. Intraband modulation in semiconductor gain media has recently been shown to provide a wide-band nonlinearity which is over five orders of magnitude larger than the Kerr nonlinearity in silica fiber. We discuss recent work on the application of this nonlinearity to the wavelength conversion function in all optical networks; specifically, carrier wavelength spectral translation by four-wave mixing in semiconductor traveling-wave amplifiers (TWAs)

Keywords

laser noise; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; travelling wave amplifiers; Kerr nonlinearity; all optical networks; carrier wavelength spectral translation; four-wave mixing; intraband modulation; nonlinearity; semiconductor gain media; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor traveling-wave amplifiers; silica fiber; wavelength conversion function; wavelength shifting; wide-band nonlinearity; All-optical networks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484586

Filename

484586