All-optical integrated Mach-Zehnder switching in lithium niobate waveguides due to cascaded nonlinearities

Baek, Y. and Schiek, R. and Krijnen, G.J.M. and Stegeman, G.I. and Baumann, I. and Sohler, W. (1996) All-optical integrated Mach-Zehnder switching in lithium niobate waveguides due to cascaded nonlinearities. In: Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO'96, 2-7 June 1996, Anaheim, CA, USA.

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Abstract:	In all-optical switching the required phase shift is produced by the light itself. Typically this shift has been achieved via the intensity-dependent refractive index. But recently the fact that the so-called cascaded second-order nonlinearity can imitate the third-order nonlinearity was proven experimentally. This work demonstrates for the first time, the integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers switching due to the cascaded second-order nonlinearities with a switching ratio 8:1.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST)
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