Polarisation independent spectral inversion without frequency shift in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Hong, Yanhua ; Bandyopadhyav, S. ; Spencer, S. ; Shore, K. Alan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Informatics, Univ. of Wales, Bangor, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

311

Abstract

This paper describes an experimental study of two schemes for polarisation independent spectral inversion without frequency shift in a semiconductor amplifier. It has been found that conjugate beam from the front facet of the SOA is polarisation insensitive when the frequency detuning between the two pump beams is less than 200 GHz and a polarisation insensitive conjugate beam without frequency shift is obtained when the frequency detuning between the two pumps is larger than 180 GHz. The experimental results has been found to be in good qualitative agreement with the theoretical predictions.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser tuning; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; spectral line shift; 180 GHz; 200 GHz; SOA; frequency detuning; frequency shift; polarisation independent spectral inversion; polarisation insensitive conjugate beam; pump beams; semiconductor optical amplifier; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tellurium; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312372

Filename

1312372