The optical speed-up at transparency principle has been successfully applied to a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier yielding a remarkable acceleration in the gain recovery of the device as well as to the disappearance of the typical relaxation oscillations stemming from the coupling between the internal lasing mode and the carrier density. A record gain recovery time of 13 ps has been measured with an available gain of still 16 dB. A small-signal analysis of the semiconductor laser amplifier rate equations properly reproduces the acceleration of the recovery time and the disappearance of the relaxation oscillations. These results apply to semiconductor lasers in general.
Title
Acceleration of a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier by the optical speed-up at transparency scheme
Published in
Ieee Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
16
Issue
5
Pages
1262-1264
Date
2004
ISSN
1041-1135
Note
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Quantum Elect & Photon, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Alcatel Res & Innovat, F-91461 Marcoussis, France. Salleras, F, Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Quantum Elect & Photon, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. ferran.sallerasvila@eptl.ch
ISI Document Delivery No.: 815TI
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Record creation date
2007-08-31