All-optical switching and wavelength conversion using passive nonlinearities in semiconductor quantum wells

Jongbum Nah; Patrick LiKamWa

doi:10.1117/12.669736

12 May 2006 All-optical switching and wavelength conversion using passive nonlinearities in semiconductor quantum wells

Jongbum Nah, Patrick LiKamWa

Proceedings Volume 6243, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications II; 62430F (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669736
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

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 1GHz 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.

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Jongbum Nah and Patrick LiKamWa "All-optical switching and wavelength conversion using passive nonlinearities in semiconductor quantum wells", Proc. SPIE 6243, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications II, 62430F (12 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669736

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