Simulation of Static Optical XPM in Active MMI Couplers

Author

Ibrahim, Salah ; Song, Xueliang ; Sugiyama, Masakazu ; Nakano, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo

fYear

2007

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Based on the FD-BPM and including the distribution of photon density, carrier density, and refractive index, a simulation code is used to analyze the static performance of active MMI couplers in the presence of two different optical signals. To examine the feasibility of a novel all-optical switch based on active MMI; the code is mainly used to evaluate the amount of phase change resulting in the output of one optical signal by varying the intensity of the other at different injected carrier density.

Keywords

carrier density; light interference; optical couplers; optical modulation; optical switches; phase modulation; refractive index; FD-BPM; active MMI couplers; all-optical switch; carrier density; cross phase modulation; multimode interferometer; optical signals; phase change; photon density; refractive index; static optical XPM; Couplers; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical saturation; Optical variables control; Optical wavelength conversion; Refractive index; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, 2007. NUSOD '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Newark, DE

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1431-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2007.4349041

Filename

4349041