Ultrahigh-bandwidth, on-chip all-optical pulse erasure using the χ (3) process in a nonlinear chalcogenide waveguide

Date

2011

Authors

Pant, Ravi
Vo, Trung D.
Xiong, Chunle
Pelusi, Mark
Madden, Steve
Luther-Davies, Barry
Eggleton, Benjamin J

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We demonstrate on-chip all-optical pulse erasure based on four-wave mixing and cross-phase modulation in a dispersion engineered chalcogenide (As2S3) rib waveguide. We achieve an erasure efficiency of ∼15 dB for picosecond pulses in good agreement with

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Keywords: All-optical; Combined effect; Cross-phase modulations; Dinger equation; Nonlinear chalcogenides; Numerical simulation; On chips; Optical nonlinearity; Pico-second pulse; Rib waveguides; Small groups; Ultrafast signal processing; Walk-off; Four wave mixing

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Optics Letters

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Journal article

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Open Access

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