Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5213139
