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Gain and phase regeneration characteristics of Silicon-based symmetric-pump phase-sensitive parametric amplifier

LI WENJING1,* , SANG XINZHU1, YUAN JINHUI1, WANG KUIRU1, YU CHONGXIU1, XIN XIANGJUN2

Affiliation

  1. Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Ministry of Education, Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicat
  2. School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.O. Box 163 (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China

Abstract

Based on the symmetric-pump phase-sensitive parametric amplifier (SP-PSA) model in silicon waveguide, the gain and phase generation characteristics of SP-PSA in the presence of two-photon absorption (TPA) are investigated. Different parameters of pumps and medium have been considered to illustrate their effect on SP-PSA. The results show that the net gain and low noise can be only achieved with appropriate pump power and free carrier lifetime while dispersion is not very important. In addition, the phase regeneration performance can also be influenced by pump and medium parameters.

Keywords

(190.4410) Nonlinear optics, Parametric processes, (230.4320) Nonlinear optical devices, (250.3140) Integrated optoelectronic circuits, (250.4480) Optical amplifiers.

Citation

LI WENJING, SANG XINZHU, YUAN JINHUI, WANG KUIRU, YU CHONGXIU, XIN XIANGJUN, Gain and phase regeneration characteristics of Silicon-based symmetric-pump phase-sensitive parametric amplifier, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 12, December 2010, pp.1968-1972 (2010).

Submitted at: Nov. 15, 2010

Accepted at: Nov. 29, 2010