• DocumentCode
    521339
  • Title

    All-optical swicthing by optical Kerr effect in AlGaAs photonic crystal slab waveguide

  • Author

    Oda, Hisaya ; Yamanaka, Akio ; Ikeda, Naoki ; Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ; Asakawa, Kiyoshi

  • Author_Institution
    Chitose Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Chitose, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We have succeeded all-optical Mach-Zehnder type switch by optical Kerr effect around 1550nm in AlGaAs photonic crystal slab waveguide. We also studied nonlinear refractive index n´2 in this waveguide.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical Kerr effect; optical switches; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; refractive index; AlGaAs; all-optical Mach-Zehnder type switch; nonlinear refractive index; optical Kerr effect; photonic crystal slab waveguide; Fiber nonlinear optics; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Slabs; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500955