Study of ultrafast process of semiconductor optical amplifier by four-wave mixing with incoherent light

Guangxue Xuebao/Acta Optica Sinica

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 897-901

  Hu, Zhenhua ^a,b   Huang, Dexiu ^a   Sun, Junqiang ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Gao, Shaohong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active optical waveguide; Four wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Relaxation process; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Ultrahigh time resolution

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

INCOHERENT LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; TIME DELAY FOUR WAVE MIXING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0347353528     PISSN: 02532239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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