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
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