DocumentCode
2623836
Title
Femtosecond all-optical switching in a lithium niobate directional coupler with cascaded nonlinearity
Author
Schiek, R. ; Elflein, W. ; Pertsch, T. ; Tunnermann, A. ; Parameswaran, K.R. ; Fejer, M.M.
Author_Institution
Electrophys. Dept., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany
fYear
2000
fDate
6-10 Aug. 2000
Firstpage
171
Lastpage
173
Abstract
We observed all-optical switching with femtosecond pulses in periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide couplers. The contrast of the second-order nonlinear switching process was increased in waveguides with engineered nonuniformity of the wave-vector mismatch.
Keywords
dielectric polarisation; diffraction gratings; optical couplers; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical phase matching; optical switches; vectors; LiNbO/sub 3/; LiNbO/sub 3/ optical directional coupler; cascaded nonlinearity; engineered nonuniformity; femtosecond all-optical switching; femtosecond pulses; periodically-poled; second-order nonlinear switching process; wave-vector mismatch; Directional couplers; Frequency conversion; Gratings; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pulse shaping; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 2000. Technical Digest
Conference_Location
Kaua´i-Lihue, HI, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-646-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NLO.2000.883612
Filename
883612
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