Sampling pulses with semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 118-126

  Jiang, Leaf A ^a   Ippen, Erich P ^a   Feiste, Uwe ^b   Diez, Stefan ^b   Hilliger, Enno ^b   Schmidt, Carsten ^b   Weber, Hans Georg ^b  

^a Research Laboratory of Electronics   (United States)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS;

GAIN-SATURATION; OPTICAL SAMPLING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0035121158     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.892733     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. R. Trebino and D. Kane, "Using phase retrieval to measure the intensity and phase of ultrashort pulses: Frequency-resolved optical gating," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 10, pp. 1101-1111, 1993.
2. K. W. DeLong, D. N. Fittinghoff, and R. Trebino, "Practical issues in ultrashort-laser-pulse measurement using frequency-resolved optical gating," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 32, pp. 1253-1264, 1996.
3. D. N. Fittinghoff, J. L. Bowie, J. N. Sweetser, R. T. Jennings, M. A. Krumbuegel, K. W. DeLong, R. Trebino, and I. W. Walmsley, "Measurement of the intensity and phase of ultraweek, ultrashort, laser pulses," Opt. Lett., vol. 21, pp. 884-886, 1996.
4. C. Iaconis and I. A. Walmsley, "Self-referencing spectral interferometry for measuring ultrashort optical pulses," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 35, pp. 501-509, 1999.
5. K.-L. Deng, R. J. Runser, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "Single-shot optical sampling oscilloscope for ultrafast optical waveforms," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 397-399, 1998.
6. H. Kawaguchi and J. Inoue, "Four-wave mixing among sub-picosecond optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier and its applications," in Proc. 8th Eur. Conf. Integrated Optics, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997.
7. M. Eiselt, W. Pieper, and H. G. Weber, "SLALOM: Semiconductor laser amplifier in a loop mirror," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 13, pp. 2099-2112, 1995.
8. E. Hilliger, Interferometrische schalter mit halbleiterverstaerkern, in Diplomarbeit thesis, Technischen Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1998.
9. S. Diez, C. Schmidt, D. Hoffmann, C. Bornholdt, B. Sartorius, H. G. Weber, L. A. Jiang, and A. Krotkus, "Simultaneous sampling of optical pulse intensities and wavelengths by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 73, no. 26, pp. 3821-3823, 1998.
10. C. Schmidt, Untersuchung zum nichtlinearen verhalten von halbleiterlaserverstaerkern mittels optischer pikosekundenpulse, in Diplomarbeit thesis, Technischen Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1997.
11. R. W. Gerchberg and W. O. Saxton, "A practical algorithm for the determination of phase from image and diffraction plane pictures," Optik, vol. 35, pp. 237-246, 1972.
12. J. R. Feinup, "Phase retrieval algorithms: A comparison," Appl. Opt., pp. 2758-2769, 1982.