Low-power all-optical switch in a passive InGaAsP MQW waveguide directional coupler

I. E. Day; P. A. Snow; R. V. Penty; I. H. White

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
paper CThB2

Low-power all-optical switch in a passive InGaAsP MQW waveguide directional coupler

I. E. Day, P. A. Snow, R. V. Penty, and I. H. White

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1995

Baltimore, Maryland United States
21–26 May 1995
ISBN: 1-55752-400-9

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I. E. Day, P. A. Snow, R. V. Penty, and I. H. White, "Low-power all-optical switch in a passive InGaAsP MQW waveguide directional coupler," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, T. Deutsch, J. Goldsmith, D. Killinger, and G. Valley, eds., Vol. 15 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995), paper CThB2.

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Abstract

All-optical switching of a 30-ps pulse at 1.53 μm is demonstrated in an integrated In- GaAsP/InGaAsP MQW directional coupler with a resonant band-filling nonlinearity by using only diode-laser optical pumps. Switching is achieved for a coupled pulse energy of 100-pj.

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