All-optical switching and passive mode-locking based on non-linear polarization rotation in a semiconductor quantum well amplifier

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作者：
Yang, CC [1 ]
Lay, CW [1 ]
Lin, MS [1 ]
Huang, DW [1 ]
机构：
[1] NATL TAIWAN UNIV,DEPT ELECT ENGN,TAIPEI 10764,TAIWAN
来源：
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1996年 / 28卷 / 10期
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D O I：
10.1007/BF00326195
中图分类号：
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号：
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要：
Owing to differences in the selection rules of electron transitions between TE and TM modes in a quantum well structure, an optical amplifier with such a structure manifests linear birefringence and anisotropy of gain-absorption saturation. The anisotropy leads to the evolution of power-dependent polarization in the optical amplifier. We demonstrate experimentally efficient non-linear self-switching based on this phenomenon in an InGaAs/GaAs single quantum well amplifier. Also, by utilizing the non-linear polarization evolution, we show numerically passive mode-locking of a semiconductor laser with a ring cavity.
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页码：1217 / 1227
页数：11
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