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
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
Publication status	Published - 20 Jan 1996

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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