All-Optical Switching and Two-Photon Absorption Effects in Long-Period Gratings in As2Se3 Chalcogenide Fibre

Author

Nguyen, Hong C. ; Grujic, Thomas ; Finsterbusch, Klaus ; Mägi, Eric C. ; Fu, Libin ; Kuhlmey, Boris T. ; De Sterke, C. Martijn ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

fYear

2007

fDate

24-27 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We show that two-photon absorption can actually improve the performance of a long-period grating switch in highly nonlinear As₂Se₃ chalcogenide fibre. We demonstrate numerically and experimentally low power switching behavior at pulse intensities around 65 MW/cm².

Keywords

arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; diffraction gratings; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical glass; optical switches; two-photon spectra; As₂Se₃; all-optical switching; long-period grating switch; low power switching; nonlinear chalcogenide glass fibre; two-photon absorption effect; Absorption; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Resonance; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-0-9775657-3-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-9775657-3-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519197

Filename

4519197