A novel "cascaded" waveguide phasematching arrangement

Author

Khurgin, J.B. ; Di Yang ; Ding, Y.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

475

Abstract

Summary form only given. Compound III-V semiconductors, such as GaAs and GaP have high nonlinear coefficient d/sub 36/ of the order of 100 pm/V or more, but, unfortunately, these materials are not widely used for nonlinear frequency conversion since they are neither birefringent nor ferroelectric, i.e. III-V materials cannot be phasematched by the angle tuning while the quasi-phasematching (QPM) can be achieved only by a complicated process of wafer bonding followed by overgrowth. We have proposed a new simple method of phasematching in nonlinear waveguides and estimated its efficiency.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; nonlinear optics; optical fabrication; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; GaAs; GaP; III-V materials; III-V semiconductors; angle tuning; cascaded waveguide phasematching arrangement; efficiency; nonlinear coefficient; nonlinear frequency conversion; nonlinear waveguides; overgrowth; quasi-phasematching; wafer bonding; Coherence; Electromagnetic waveguides; Ferroelectric materials; Gratings; Optical device fabrication; Optical harmonic generation; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor materials; Semiconductor waveguides; Waveguide discontinuities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834467

Filename

834467