Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES; FEMTOSECOND LASER; NONLINEARITIES; WAVELENGTH; PULSES; GB/S; Optics
Abstract
The gain dynamics of a semiconductor optical amplifier ( SOA) were measured using pump-probe techniques for the amplification of 750 fs pulses, 6.5 ps pulses and multiwavelength pulses, obtained from an external cavity semiconductor mode-locked laser. Furthermore, the intracavity gain dynamics of an external cavity semiconductor mode-locked laser was measured under multiwavelength operation. The experimental results show how the inherent chirp in pulses from external cavity semiconductor mode-locked lasers result in a slow gain depletion without significant fast gain dynamics. This mitigates gain competition between wavelength channels and nonlinearities in the gain media ( SOA), enabling the multiwavelength operation of external cavity semiconductor mode-locked lasers. Numerical simulations support the experimental results.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
14
Issue/Number
20
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
9223
Last Page
9237
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Archundia, Luis C. and Delfyett, Peter J., "External cavity multiwavelength semiconductor mode-locked lasers gain dynamics" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 5913.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/5913
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