Wavelength tuneable pulse monitoring using a Two-Photon-Absorption microcavity

Author

Bondarczuk, K. ; Maguire, P.J. ; Barry, L.P. ; Dowd, J.O. ; Guo, W.H. ; Lynch, M. ; Bradley, A.L. ; Donegan, J.F. ; Folliot, H.

Author_Institution

Dublin City Univ., Dublin

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Two Photon Absorption (TPA) is a non-linear optical-to-electrical conversion process that can be significantly enhanced by placing the active region within a resonance microcavity. The experiment confirmed the potential use of the microcavity structure for monitoring a single channel in multi-wavelength systems. The cavity can be designed for different applications depending on desired resonance width or cavity life time allowing the contrast ratio to be further improved. Due to the possibility of tuning the resonance wavelength by cavity tilting, a single device can be used to monitor a number of WDM channels without the need for additional optical filters.

Keywords

microcavities; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical tuning; telecommunication channels; two-photon processes; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channel; cavity tilting; nonlinear optical-to-electrical conversion process; optical filter; two-photon-absorption microcavity; wavelength tuneable pulse monitoring; Absorption; Microcavities; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical tuning; Resonance; Sampling methods; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386141

Filename

4386141