Title

Integrated Ultrafast Saturable Absorber

Authors

Authors

A. Villeneuve; J. S. Aitchison; J. U. Kang; P. G. Wigley;G. I. Stegeman

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

WAVE-GUIDES; PROPAGATION; SOLITONS; Optics

Abstract

An ultrafast saturable absorber was demonstrated experimentally in AlGaAs, operated with a photon energy below half the band gap, near 1555 nm. Both the saturation intensity and the linear transmission can be independently designed in the structure. The device is based on spatial soliton emission from a tapered channel waveguide with a corresponding increase in transmission of 50%. The experimental data compare favorably with numerically simulated results.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

19

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-1994

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.19.000761

Language

English

First Page

761

Last Page

763

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1994NK81900027

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Integrated Ultrafast Saturable Absorber" (1994). Faculty Bibliography 1990s. 2979.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib1990/2979