TERAHERTZ 4-WAVE-MIXING IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS - EXPERIMENT AND THEORY

Authors
USKOV A MORK J MARK J TATHAM MC SHERLOCK G
Citation
A. Uskov et al., TERAHERTZ 4-WAVE-MIXING IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS - EXPERIMENT AND THEORY, Applied physics letters, 65(8), 1994, pp. 944-946
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
65
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
944 - 946
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1994)65:8<944:T4ISOA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing processes in bulk semiconductor optical amplifiers are analyzed by comparing experimental data at detu ning frequencies up to 3 THz with numerical calculations based on semi classical density-matrix equations. Carrier heating and spectral holeb urning are found to be dominant in mediating wave mixing in the THz re gion and lead to comparable contributions to nonlinear gain suppressio n in semiconductor lasers.