Zhou, Jianhui and Park, Namkyoo and Dawson, Jay W. and Vahala, Kerry J. and Newkirk, Michael A. and Koren, Uziel and Miller, Barry I. (1993) Highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing and gain nonlinearity in a strained multiple-quantum-well optical amplifier. Applied Physics Letters, 62 (19). pp. 2301-2303. ISSN 0003-6951. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:ZHOapl93a
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Highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing was investigated in a 1.5 µm compressively strained multi-quantum-well semiconductor traveling-wave optical amplifier at detuning frequencies up to 600 GHz. A gain nonlinearity with a characteristic relaxation time of 650 fs was determined from the data, and the nonlinear gain coefficient was estimated to be 4.3×10^–23 m^3. Dynamic carrier heating is believed to be the major source of nonlinear gain in this device at the wavelengths investigated.
|Additional Information:||©1993 American Institute of Physics (Received 19 November 1992; accepted 10 March 1993) This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research (Contract No. N00014-91-J-1524) and the Northrop Corp.|
|Subject Keywords:||QUANTUM WELLS; FOUR–WAVE MIXING; GAIN; AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; CHARGE CARRIERS; HEATING; INTERNAL STRAINS|
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