Sedgwick F G, Pesala Bala, Uskov Alexander V, Chang-Hasnain C J
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Opt Express. 2007 Dec 24;15(26):17631-8. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.017631.
We present a novel scheme to increase the THz-bandwidth fast light effect in semiconductor optical amplifiers and increase the number of advanced pulses. By introducing a linear chirp to the input pulses before the SOA and recompressing at the output with an opposite chirp, the advance-bandwidth product reached 3.5 at room temperature, 1.55 microm wavelength. This is the largest number reported, to the best of our knowledge, for a semiconductor slow/fast light device.