Resonant-cavity-enhanced surface-emitted second-harmonic generation in the sub-ps regime

Author

Ulmer, T.G. ; Washburn, B.R. ; Kenan, R.P. ; Verber, C.M. ; Ralph, Stephen E. ; SpringThorpe, A.J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

363

Abstract

Summary form only given.Surface-emitted second-harmonic generation (SESHG) offers unique advantages in applications such as ultrafast optical time-division de-multiplexing. In this geometry, efficiency enhancements of one to two orders of magnitude have been demonstrated by resonating the SH in a vertical cavity. In contrast to previous work, we explore, for the first time, the short-pulse regime where the spectral filtering effect of a single cavity mode limits the enhancement. We show experimentally that significant enhancement is possible for pulses shorter than 1 ps, thus allowing efficient, ultrafast, all-optical signal processing and frequency conversion.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical harmonic generation; optical information processing; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; time division multiplexing; optical frequency conversion; resonant-cavity-enhanced surface-emitted second-harmonic generation; short-pulse region; single cavity mode; spectral filtering effect; sub-ps regime; ultrafast all-optical signal processing; ultrafast optical time-division de-multiplexing; vertical cavity; Microcavities; Microscopy; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Quantum dot lasers; Resonance; Space vector pulse width modulation; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907120

Filename

907120