All-optical switching in a vertical coupler space switch employing photocarrier-induced nonlinearity

AR Varrazza; S Yu; M Owen; IY Khrushchev; RV Penty; IH White; SV Dewar

doi:10.1109/CLEO.2000.907262

All-optical switching in a vertical coupler space switch employing photocarrier-induced nonlinearity

AR Varrazza
, S Yu
, M Owen
, IY Khrushchev
, RV Penty
, IH White
, SV Dewar

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Summary form only given. Nonlinear optical switches will be key devices in order to realize all-optical signal processing in order to meet increasing data speed requirements in future optical communications systems. Of various nonlinear optical effects, the photocarrier-induced band edge nonlinearity in semiconductor quantum wells has relatively large amplitude with a time constant in the 10-ps range depending on the carrier sweep-out time. It has been shown theoretically that a device based on such an effect and a vertical coupler structure can make an effective nonlinear optical switch. In the paper a new form of all-optical switch employing photocarrier-induced nonlinearity based on a vertical coupler structure, which allows high switch contrast, is reported

Translated title of the contribution	All-optical switching in a vertical coupler space switch employing photocarrier-induced nonlinearity
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2000), San Francisco, USA
Publisher	Opt. Soc. America
Pages	467 - 468
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	1557526346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2000.907262
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2000

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