Ultrafast all-optical wavelength conversion using an integrated amplifier/DFB laser

M.F.C. Stephens; R.V. Penty; I.H. White; M. Asghari; M.J. Fice; J.E.A. Whiteaway; Anon [No Value]

Ultrafast all-optical wavelength conversion using an integrated amplifier/DFB laser

M.F.C. Stephens, R.V. Penty, I.H. White, M. Asghari, M.J. Fice, J.E.A. Whiteaway, Anon [No Value] (Editor)

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

Wavelength conversion in the 1550 nm regime was achieved in an integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)/DFB laser by modulating the output power of the laser with a light beam of a different wavelength externally injected into the SOA section. A 12 dB output extinction ratio was obtained for an average coupled input power of 75 μW with the laser section driven at 65 mA and the amplifier section at 180 mA. The response time achieved was as low as 13 ps with the laser biased at 175 mA even with low extinction ratios. The laser exhibits a similar recovery time allowing potentially very high bit-rate operation.

Original language	English
Pages	127-128
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 1997

Keywords

Distributed feedback lasers
Laser pulses
Light emission
Light extinction
Light modulation
Semiconductor lasers
Ultrafast phenomena
Integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)
Ultrafast all optical wavelength conversion
Optical frequency conversion

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