Semiconductor optical amplifiers: recent advances and applications

A Sobhanan, A Anthur, S O'Duill, M Pelusi… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Owing to advances in fabrication technology and device design, semiconductor optical
amplifiers (SOAs) are evolving as a promising candidate for future optical coherent …

All-optical signal processing technologies in flexible optical networks

Y Ji, H Wang, J Cui, M Yu, Z Yang, L Bai - Photonic Network …, 2019 - Springer
All-optical signal processing has always been critical assistance for the flexible optical
networks (FONs) development which realizes various signal processing functions in all …

Four wave mixing-based time lens for orthogonal polarized input signals

A Klein, S Shahal, G Masri, H Duadi… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present highly efficient time-lenses for orthogonal polarized signal waves with a specific
state of polarization. Our four-wave mixing based time-lenses exploit polarization mode …

Low-noise integrated phase-sensitive waveguide parametric amplifiers

P Zhao, M Karlsson, PA Andrekson - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Low-noise optical amplifiers play a vital role in optical communications and signal
processing. Recently, there has been a pursuit for compact, waveguide-based, parametric …

Switchable thulium-doped fiber laser from polarization rotation vector to scalar soliton

Z Wu, S Fu, K Jiang, J Song, H Li, M Tang, P Shum… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We experimentally demonstrate switchable temporal soliton generation from a thulium-
doped fiber laser (TDFL), using carbon nanotubes as the mode-locker. With the help of …

2D-to-1D constellation reforming using phase-sensitive amplifier-based constellation squeezing and shifting

J Cui, Y Ji, GW Lu, H Wang, M Zhang - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, a phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA)-based two dimensional (2D)-to-one
dimensional (1D) constellation reforming system is proposed and analyzed in detail. The …

Single-axis soliton molecule and multiple solitons generation from a vector fiber laser

Z Wu, Q Wei, P Huang, D Luo, X Zhang, S Fu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We investigate various patterns of vector solitons arising in a passively mode-locked fiber
laser based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). By properly adjusting the …

Compact photonic model based on coupled-mode theory for nonlinear interactions in electronic-photonic co-simulation

S Zhang, X Fan, N Chen, C Qiu, X Wang, KX Wang… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This paper demonstrates a Verilog-A compact photonic model based on coupled-mode
theory for nonlinear interactions, including four-wave mixing (FWM) and cross-phase …

Analytic theory for parametric amplification in high-Q micro-ring resonators

S He, N Chen, H Li, X Fan, W Dong… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) are optical amplifiers based on four-wave mixing
processes, showing great potential for applications in communications, optical signal …

Low-noise phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers based on integrated silicon-nitride-waveguides for optical signal processing

P Zhao, Z Ye, M Karlsson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-noise optical amplification has been a long-lasting research topic in various fields
including communication, metrology and quantum optics. Here we report optical signal …