Four-wave-mixing-based wavelength conversion using a single-walled carbon-nanotube-deposited planar lightwave circuit waveguide

被引：31

作者：

Chow, K. K. ^{[1
]}

Yamashita, S. ^{[1
]}

Set, S. Y. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Elect Engn & Informat Syst, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1138656, Japan

[2] Alnair Labs Corp, Setagaya Ku, Tokyo 1540005, Japan

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2010年 / 35卷 / 12期

关键词：

SATURABLE ABSORBERS; FIBER; GENERATION; LASERS;

D O I：

10.1364/OL.35.002070

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrated a single-walled carbon-nanotube-deposited planar lightwave circuit (PLC) waveguide for four-wave-mixing (FWM)-based wavelength conversion. FWM is generated from the interaction between the propagating light through the PLC waveguide and the deposited carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the overcladding-removed core of the waveguide. The third-order nonlinearity of the CNTs is originated from the interband transitions of the pi electrons causing nonlinear polarization similar to other highly nonlinear organic optical materials. FWM-based tunable wavelength conversion of a 10 Gbit/s non-return-to-zero signal is achieved with a power penalty of 3 dB in the bit-error-rate measurements. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a CNT-technology-based device for integrated photonic applications. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：2070 / 2072

页数：3

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