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

K. I. Kang; T. G. Chang; I. Glesk; P. R. Prucnal

doi:10.1364/AO.35.000417

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

K. I. Kang
, T. G. Chang
, I. Glesk
, P. R. Prucnal

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Abstract

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 ˜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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	417-426
Number of pages	10
Journal	Applied Optics
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.35.000417
State	Published - Jan 20 1996

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Engineering (miscellaneous)
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Mach–Zehnder
Resonant optical nonlinearities
Sagnac
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer
Ultrafast all-optical switch

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

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