Open AccessTHEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF NONDEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AMPLIFIERS
Author(s) -
Jiang Yan,
Yiping Cui,
Pang Shuming
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.48.673
Subject(s) - laser linewidth , semiconductor , rate equation , mixing (physics) , amplifier , physics , four wave mixing , laser , density matrix , nonlinear system , semiconductor laser theory , optical amplifier , materials science , optics , nonlinear optics , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , quantum , cmos , kinetics
Theoretical analysis and numerical solution of several physical mechanisms on nondegenerate four-wave mixing(NDFWM) in semiconductor laser amplifiers are presented. Starting from the general carrier rate equation, density-matrix equations and nonlinear wave equations, considering the effects of carrier-density pulsations, carrier heating, and spectral-hole burning, we obtained three sets of nonlinear coupled wave equations, and compared the contributions of the three different physical mechanisms to the NDFWM. We also investigated the effect of linewidth enhancement factor on the conversion efficiency of the NDFWM in semiconductor laser amplifiers.