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Experimental investigation of polarization effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers and implications for all-optical switching

Philippe, Severine, Bradley, Ann Louise orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9399-8628, Kennedy, Brendan F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4782-0498 and Landais, Pascal orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4807-0695 (2008) Experimental investigation of polarization effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers and implications for all-optical switching. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 26 (16). pp. 2977-2985. ISSN 0733-8724

Abstract
A free-space contra-propagation configuration is implemented and pump-probe studies are undertaken in order to study polarization-dependent gain dynamics in bulk semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and their application to gain and polarization switching. The polarization dependence of the gain compression shows that the co-polarized case, in which the pump and probe are TE-polarized, is the optimum for gain switching. When injecting light polarized at 45 , an additional contribution due to the presence of rotating fields is observed, and the cross-polarized case is found to be the most promising for polarization switching. The potential for all-optical switching based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NLPR) induced in the SOA is then assessed through characterization of the dynamics of the state of polarization. It is demonstrated that by careful selection of the orientation of a linear polarizer in front of the detector, it is possible to reduce the recovery time from 100 to 5 ps. The improvement comes about from the selection of the intraband fast gain recovery dynamics. Polarization switching offers potentially faster switching times compared to gain switching as well as an extinction ratio improvement of 10 dB.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Engineering > Optical communication
Physical Sciences > Lasers
Physical Sciences > Photonics
Physical Sciences > Semiconductors
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE)
Publisher:Optical Society of America
Official URL:https://www.osapublishing.org/jlt/abstract.cfm?uri...
Copyright Information:© 2008 IEEE
ID Code:24816
Deposited On:20 Jul 2020 11:15 by Pascal Landais . Last Modified 04 Nov 2022 14:42
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