Title

Toward soliton emission in asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide structures below the half-bandgap

Authors

Authors

P. Dumais; A. Villeneuve; A. Saher-Helmy; J. S. Aitchison; L. Friedrich; R. A. Fuerst;G. I. Stegeman

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

NONLINEAR WAVE-GUIDES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX; DIELECTRIC FILM; GAUSSIAN-BEAM; MEDIA; PROPAGATION; INTERFACES; REFLECTION; STABILITY; Optics

Abstract

We report what is to our knowledge the first experimental evidence of nonlinear beam displacement in a strip-loaded GaAs/AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide with an asymmetric, nonlinear cladding. An intensity-dependent spatial displacement of similar to 2 pm was observed for the guided mode at a wavelength of 1.55 mu m. Numerical simulations that correspond to the experiment are also presented. The device has the potential of providing a soliton-emission-based, ultrafast all-optical snitch. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 190.4420, 190.4390, 190.4360, 190.4310, 190.5970.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

25

Issue/Number

17

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1282

Last Page

1284

WOS Identifier

WOS:000089045000020

ISSN

0146-9592

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