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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1602-6
DOI :
10.1109/NUSOD.2012.6316490
