Wavelength-selective pulsed all-optical switching based on cascaded second-order nonlinearity in a periodically poled lithium-niobate waveguide

被引：37

作者：

Kanter, GS ^{[1
]}

Kumar, P

Parameswaran, KR

Fejer, MM

机构：

[1] Northwestern Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Ctr Photon Commun & Comp, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

[2] E L Ginzton Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2001年 / 13卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

nonlinear optics; optical communications; optical switches; optical waveguides;

D O I：

10.1109/68.917845

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We report ail-optical switching in a time and wavelength window based on cascaded sum- and difference-frequency generation in a periodically poled lithium-niobate waveguide, More than 50% switching of a 5-ps pulse is observed with a gate-pulse peak power of 6.6 W.

引用

页码：341 / 343

页数：3

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