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

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

29 June-3 July 2003

Firstpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2003.1264561

Filename

1264561