All-Optical Switching In A Hybrid Mach-Zehnder Interferometer As A Result Of Cascaded 2Nd-Order Nonlinearity

    Authors

    Y. Baek; R. Schiek;G. I. Stegeman

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    PHASE-SHIFTS; WAVE-GUIDES; 2ND-ORDER; KTP; Optics

    Abstract

    We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, all-optical switching with a contrast ratio of 7:1 based on the cascaded second-order nonlinearity. We performed the switching experiments in a nonlinear hybrid Mach-Zehnder interferometer, using a nonuniformly temperature-tuned lithium niobate channel waveguide in an operating regime of small fundamental depletion. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    20

    Issue/Number

    21

    Publication Date

    1-1-1995

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2168

    Last Page

    2170

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1995TB35500006

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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