Integrated Ultrafast Saturable Absorber

    Authors

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

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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

    Language

    English

    First Page

    761

    Last Page

    763

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1994NK81900027

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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