Comparison of Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder ultrafast all-optical interferometric switches based on a semiconductor resonant optical nonlinearity

被引：81
作者：
Kang, KI
Chang, TG
Glesk, I
Prucnal, PR
机构：
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
来源：
APPLIED OPTICS | 1996年 / 35卷 / 03期
关键词：
ultrafast all-optical switch; Sagnac; Mach-Zehnder; semiconductor optical amplifiers; resonant optical nonlinearities; terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer;
D O I：
10.1364/AO.35.000417
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
We present a theoretical analysis of recently demonstrated ultrafast all-optical interferometric switching devices (based on Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder interferometers) that use a large optical nonlinearity in a resonant regime. These devices achieve similar to 10-ps switching windows and do not require high-energy optical control pulses. We theoretically analyze and compare one Sagnac and two Mach-Zehnder switching configurations.
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