Theory of nondegenerate four-wave mixing between pulses in a semiconductor waveguide

被引:30
作者
Mork, J
Mecozzi, A
机构
[1] TELE DANMARK R&D,DK-2970 HORSHOLM,DENMARK
[2] FDN UGO BORDONI,I-00142 ROME,ITALY
关键词
optical mixing; optical pulses; semiconductor waveguides;
D O I
10.1109/3.563382
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We develop a perturbation theory for calculating the effects of saturation on nondegenerate four-wave mixing between short optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Saturation due to ultrafast intraband dynamics like carrier heating and spectral hole burning is found to be important for pulses on the order of 10-20 ps or less.
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页码:545 / 555
页数:11
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