DocumentCode
2025009
Title
All optical switching via XPM in silicon waveguides
Author
Boyraz, Ozdal ; Koonath, Prakash ; Raghunathan, Varun ; Jalali, Bahram
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2004
fDate
7-11 Nov. 2004
Firstpage
973
Abstract
We demonstrate all-optical switching based on cross phase modulation in silicon waveguides. Switching of a 1537 nm CW signal by a pulsed pump at 1560 nm and with extinction of 13 dB is demonstrated.
Keywords
elemental semiconductors; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical switches; optical waveguides; phase modulation; silicon; 1537 nm; 1560 nm; Si; XPM; all optical switching; cross phase modulation; silicon waveguides; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser excitation; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8557-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363571
Filename
1363571
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