Practical method for modelling the nonlinear behaviour off a travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier

A Proposal for a New Method of Modeling of the Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

With the advancement of nanoscale semiconductor technology,semiconductor optical amplifiers are used to amplify and process all-optical signals. Inthis paper, with the aim of calculating the gain of quantum dot semiconductor opticalamplifier (QD-SOA), two groups of rate equations and the optical signal propagatingequation are used in the active layer of the device. For t...

All-Optical Switching of Picosecond Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

High-speed all-optical switching is demonstrated by four-wave mixing (FWM) of picosecond pulses using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). A light source for measurement and switching in the 1.5 μm region is produced using a normal group velocity dispersion fiber and optical parametric oscillator. The output supercontinuum (SC) optical pulses, with a spectral width of approximately 300 nm, a...

Nonlinear polarization rotation induced by ultrashort optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier

We use a new rate-equation model for the propagation of sub-picosecond polarized optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). This model is based on the decomposition of the polarized optical field into TE and TM components that interact via the gain saturation, and accounts for two-photon absorption, free-carrier absorption, selfand cross-phase modulation, carrier heating, and sp...

THEORY OF THE TRAVELLING-WAVE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER By Professor

The theory of a parametric travelling-wave amplifier is developed, including the pumping wave explicitly. Particular reference is made to two characteristics of such amplifiers which theories assuming a constant pumping-wave amplitude fail to predict. The first arises from ohmic attenuation in the line, and limits the useful length of line to a length of the order of (ot\a.i)~l, where <xi and 0...

Efficient Optical Phase modalation using A Semiconductor Optical Amplifier