Observation of enhanced group velocity dispersion in coupled waveguide structures

Author

Lee, Yong ; Heberle, Albert P.

Author_Institution

Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1049

Lastpage

1055

Abstract

Enhanced group velocity dispersion (GVD) due to coupled-waveguide modes (supermodes) has been experimentally observed, for the first time, using an InGaAsP-InP semiconductor coupled waveguide structure. The observed waveguide dispersion, which was due to supermodes, was about 10 ³ times as large as that due to single-waveguide modes. Preliminary experimental results on the compression of a chirped pulse using coupled-waveguide structures is also presented, and shows its potential for use in a simple, compact, and transmissive dispersion compensator or pulse compressor

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical dispersion; optical pulse compression; InGaAsP-InP; InGaAsP-InP semiconductor coupled waveguide structure; chirped pulse; coupled waveguide structures; coupled-waveguide modes; coupled-waveguide structures; enhanced group velocity dispersion; observed waveguide dispersion; optical pulse compressor; single-waveguide modes; supermodes; transmissive dispersion compensator; Chirp; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical filters; Optical pulse compression; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor waveguides; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.769307

Filename

769307