• DocumentCode
    3496573
  • Title

    All-optical gate switches employing the quasi-phase matched cascaded second-order nonlinear effect: Effect of fabrication errors

  • Author

    Oshige, Ryohei ; Osawa, Yusuke ; Fukuchi, Yutaka

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    28-31 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    27
  • Lastpage
    28
  • Abstract
    We numerically calculate characteristics of all-optical gate switches using the cascaded second-order nonlinear effect in quasi-phase matched lithium niobate waveguides. Small amount of the domain length error causes significant decrease of the switching efficiency.
  • Keywords
    lithium compounds; optical fabrication; optical switches; optical waveguides; all-optical gate switches; domain length error; fabrication errors; quasi-phase matched cascaded second-order nonlinear effect; quasi-phase matched lithium niobate waveguides; switching efficiency; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical switches; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2012 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • ISSN
    2158-3234
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1602-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NUSOD.2012.6316490
  • Filename
    6316490