Optical sampling using nondegenerate four-wave mixingin asemiconductor laser amplifier
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 30 (18) , 1489-1491
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19941043
Abstract
Picosecond optical sampling using nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor laser amplifier (SLA) is demonstrated for the first time. High-peak-power pulses and electrical gating of the SLA produce an optical sampling signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio.Keywords
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