Title :
Supercontinuum short optical pulse generation and its application to gain dynamics measurements of SOAs
Author :
Kawaguchi, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Yamagata Univ., Japan
fDate :
29 June-3 July 2003
Abstract :
Supercontinuum (SC) optical pulses at 1.5 μm region with a spectral width of about 300 nm have been generated. By compensation of the up-chirp of the SC pulses, the pulse width has been compressed to 60 fs. We have measured the gain dynamics of wide gain-bandwidth semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) using the two-color pump-probe technique with a few hundred-femtosecond optical pulses which were generated from the compressed SC optical pulses.
Keywords :
compensation; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.5 micron; 300 nm; 60 fs; compressed optical pulses; gain dynamics; gain dynamics measurements; supercontinuum short optical pulse generation; two-color pump-probe technique; wide gain-bandwidth semiconductor optical amplifiers; Gain measurement; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7816-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2003.1264561
