RESEARCH INITIATION AWARD: Femtosecond Pulse Generation fromSemiconductor Optical Amplifiers

9410771德尔菲特的工作将在半导体行波光放大器产生、表征和利用高功率超短光脉冲方面进行。这项工作需要资金来启动和建立光学和激光研究和教育中心的高速光子学工作。该研究方案的主要特点是利用高增益和高带宽，可以将其带隙工程应用到半导体光放大器中，以支持从紧凑高效的半导体激光光源中产生超短、高功率的光脉冲。此外，这种光源的新用途将被开发用于全光光子网络、实时非线性光学信号处理以及三维、体积或多层多波长光学存储器中的实时光学记录和检索。***

9410771 Delfyett Work will be performed on the generation, characterization, and utilization of high power ultrashort optical pulses from semiconductor traveling wave optical amplifiers. Funding for this effort is required to initiate and establish a high speed photonics effort at the Center for Research and Education for Optics and Lasers. The salient feature in this research proposal is to exploit the large gain and bandwidth, which can be bandgap engineered into semiconductor optical amplifiers in order to support the generation of ultrashort, high power optical pulses from a compact efficient semiconductor laser source. In addition, novel uses of this source will be developed for applications in all optical photonic networks, real time nonlinear optical signal processing, and real time optical recording and retrieval in three dimensional, volume or multilayer-multiwavelength optical memories. ***