Polarization dependence of non-linear gain compression factor in semiconductor optical amplifier.
We investigate the power and the polarization dependence of the intraband dynamics in a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier using both a 2.5-ps pump-probe experimental set-up in contra-propagation and a theoretical model. Our model is based on the rate equations and takes into account the polarization dependence of the gain. By comparing experimental and computational results we are able to highlight the dependences of the intraband dynamics and to extract the non-linear gain compression factor as a function of both pulse energy and polarization of the injected pulses.
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. landaisp@eeng.dcu.ie
Severine
S
Philippe
A Louise
AL
Bradley
Ramon
R
Maldonado-Basilio
Frederic
F
Surre
Brendan F
BF
Kennedy
Pascal
P
Landais
Horacio
H
Soto-Ortiz
D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012666:Semiconductors