Polarization properties of four-wave mixing in strained semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 773-775

  Paiella, Roberto ^b   Hunziker, Guido ^b   Zhou, Jianhui ^b,c   Vahala, Kerry J ^a,b   Koren, Uzi ^a,c   Miller, Barry I ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TENSORS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PUMP WAVE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL INTENSITY; WAVELENGTH CONVERTED SIGNAL;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0030173882     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.502090     Document Type: Article

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