Title

All-Optical Switching And Wavelength Conversion Using Passive Nonlinearities In Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Keywords

All-optical switching; Integrated optics; Wavelength converter

Abstract

A silica capped impurity-free vacancy induced disordering has been used in the fabrication of an all-optical integrated Mach-Zehnder switch incorporating a linear waveguide directional coupler with nonlinear multiple quantum well (MQW) sections. Using the switch we have been able to demonstrate all-optical wavelength conversions at a rate of 1 GHz that was limited by our laser source, a modelocked erbium doped fiber laser. In principle the device performance is expected to be undiminished up to repetition rates of 10Gb/s and higher.

Publication Date

8-23-2006

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

6243

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669736

Socpus ID

33747358050 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33747358050

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