28-ps switching window with a selective area MOVPE all-optical MZI switch

Author

Song, Xueliang ; Futakuchi, Naoki ; Yit, Foo Cheong ; Zhang, Zhenrui ; Nakano, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

7

fYear

2005

fDate

7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1480

Lastpage

1482

Abstract

The first dynamic all-optical switching of a bandgap-engineered Mach-Zehnder interferometer semiconductor optical amplifier all-optical switch was achieved. A 28-ps switching window was successfully confirmed. This is the first demonstration of a bandgap-engineered large-scale all-optical photonic integrated circuit with either selective-area-growth or quantum-well-intermixing techniques.

Keywords

MOCVD; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical switches; semiconductor growth; semiconductor optical amplifiers; vapour phase epitaxial growth; 28 ps; MOVPE; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical MZI switch; bandgap engineering; large-scale all-optical photonic integrated circuit; quantum-well-intermixing; selective-area-growth; semiconductor optical amplifier; switching window; Epitaxial growth; Epitaxial layers; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic band gap; Photonic integrated circuits; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical switch; Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI); metal–organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE); monolithic integration; photonic integrated circuits (PICs); selective area growth (SAG);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.848402

Filename

1453650