半导体光放大器的光-光互作用及在全光信号处理中的应用(Ⅰ)  

Interaction of Two Light Beams in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Its Applications for All-Optical Signal Processing

作　　者：吴重庆[1] 

机构地区：[1]北京交通大学理学院光信息科学与技术研究所,北京100044

出　　处：《激光与光电子学进展》2007年第10期17-25,共9页Laser & Optoelectronics Progress

基　　金：国家自然科学基金(60577020;60672004)资助项目

摘　　要：半导体光放大器(SOA)中非线性系数约为普通光纤的109倍,为光子晶体光纤的107倍。有4种光-光互作用,即交叉增益调制、交叉相位调制、交叉偏振调制和四波混频,可以灵活地组成各种光信号处理器件,如波长变换器、全光触发器、全光逻辑、全光时钟恢复、全光缓存器,正成为整个光信号处理的基础。介绍了这些技术的同时,分析当前应用的制约因素,指出半导体光放大器集成是下一步发展的必然趋势。In semiconductor optical amplifier （SOA） the nonlinearity coefficient is about 10^9 times of that in commercial optical fiber, and about 10^7 times in photonic crystal and there are four kinds of interaction of two beams of light： cross gain modulation, cross phase modulation, cross state of polarization modulation, and four wave mixing. It can be flexibly made up to many kinds of all- optical processing devices, such as wavelength converter, all-optical flip-flop, all-optical logic devices, all-optical clock recovery, all-optical buffer. Now SOA is the basic of whole optical signal processing. This paper reviews various applications of SOA, analyses its limitation in applications, and point out that integration of SOA is the development trend.

关 键 词：半导体光放大器 全光信号处理 交叉增益调制 交叉相位调制 交叉偏振调制 四波混频 

分 类 号：O438[机械工程—光学工程]