Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion and Transmultiplexing in AlGaAs Waveguides

Author

Carter, Gary M. ; Cannon, B.M. ; Mahmood, T. ; Astar, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 July 2014

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

121

Abstract

By exploiting the inherent birefringence and strong third-order susceptibility of AlGaAs waveguides, we demonstrated several all-optical polarization-insensitive nonlinear-optical signal processing operations. Additionally, undesirable two-photon absorption was minimized via band gap engineering.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; birefringence; gallium arsenide; light polarisation; minimisation; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical information processing; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; quantum optics; transmultiplexing; two-photon processes; AlGaAs; all-optical polarization-insensitive nonlinear-optical signal processing operations; aluminium gallium arsenide waveguides; band gap engineering; birefringence; polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion; polarization-insensitive wavelength transmultiplexing; third-order susceptibility; two-photon absorption minimization; Absorption; Bit error rate; Differential phase shift keying; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing (NOSP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2766-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUM.2014.69

Filename

6903017