Polarisation Free Four-Wave-Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
EPSRC : value £ 202,565 ( 36 months) 2000-2003
Investigators: Professor K.A.Shore and Dr P.S.Spencer
Research Assistant : Dr Yanhua Hong
Research Student : Mr Sujit Bandyopadhyay
The aim
of this project is to undertake experimental assessment of polarisation properties of cw multi-wave
mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers . The project has specific objectives of demonstrating novel schemes for :
(i) Polarisation independent multiwave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers
(ii)Polarisation-independent spectral inversion
without frequency shift
Project work has also been directed at examining polarisation switching phenomena in VCSELs.