High-resolution optical sampling by means of dispersionshifted highly nonlinear chalcogenide waveguides

Author

Van Erps, Jürgen ; Luan, Feng ; Pelusi, Mark D. ; Iredale, Tim ; Madden, Steve ; Choi, Duk-Yong ; Bulla, Douglas A. ; Luther-Davies, Barry ; Thienpont, Hugo ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Author_Institution

ARC Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

13-17 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate a photonic-chip-based optical sampling system with temporal resolution <500-fs, making use of a 7-cm short chalcogenide planar waveguide. Its high nonlinearity and dispersion-shifted design enables broadband operation without compromising the achieved resolution.

Keywords

arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; multiplexing; multiwave mixing; optical dispersion; optical planar waveguides; signal sampling; As₂S₃; chalcogenide planar waveguide; dispersion shift; four-wave mixing; high-resolution optical sampling; highly nonlinear chalcogenide waveguides; optical time domain multiplexing; photonic chip; size 7 cm; temporal resolution; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Sampling methods; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4102-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4103-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECC.2009.5213139

Filename

5213139