Four-wave mixing among short optical pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Abstract

We describe the dependence of four-wave mixing conversion efficiency among short optical pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier. We show a strong dependence on pulse shape and pulse overlap, predicted theoretically and confirmed in experiments.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>