• DocumentCode
    1268230
  • Title

    Ultra-sensitive all-optical sampling at 1.5 μm using waveguide two-photon absorption

  • Author

    Thomsen, B.C. ; Barry, L.P. ; Dudley, J.M. ; Harvey, J.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Auckland Univ., New Zealand
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    8/19/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1483
  • Lastpage
    1484
  • Abstract
    Ultra-sensitive all-optical sampling at 1.5 μm using two-photon-absorption in a commercial 1.3 μm quantum-well semiconductor laser has been demonstrated. Using only direct detection of the unamplified two photon absorption photocurrent, a temporal resolution of ~2 ps and a sensitivity of less than 2 mW2 have been achieved
  • Keywords
    nonlinear optics; quantum well lasers; two-photon processes; 1.3 micrometre; 1.5 micrometre; direct detection; quantum-well semiconductor laser; sensitivity; temporal resolution; ultra-sensitive all-optical sampling; unamplified two photon absorption photocurrent; waveguide two-photon absorption;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19990993
  • Filename
    803629