Title :
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
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);
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.69
