Nonlinear and active optical III-V semiconductor micro-resonators

Author

Grover, Rohit ; Amarnath, Kuldeep ; Ibrahim, Tarek A. ; Ho, Ping-Tong

Author_Institution

Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2005

fDate

6-11 March 2005

Abstract

We review our work on GaAs-AlGaAs and GaInAsP-InP optical micro-ring resonators. We have demonstrated passive linear filters and wavelength multiplexers/demultiplexers. Nonlinear rings demonstrated include logic gates and time-domain demultiplexers. Active rings demonstrated include tunable filters using the quadratic electro-optic effect, and ring amplifiers and lasers. The latter, when reverse biased, become modulators by the electro-absorption effect.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; electro-optical devices; gallium arsenide; microcavities; nonlinear optics; optical filters; optical resonators; optical tuning; ring lasers; GaAs-AlGaAs; GaInAsP-InP; III-V semiconductor micro-resonators; active optical semiconductor micro-resonators; electro-absorption effect; logic gates; modulators; nonlinear semiconductor micro-resonators; optical micro-ring resonators; passive linear filters; quadratic electro-optic effect; reverse biased lasers; ring amplifiers; ring lasers; time-domain demultiplexers; tunable filters; wavelength multiplexers/demultiplexers; III-V semiconductor materials; Multiplexing; Nonlinear filters; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Passive filters; Resonator filters; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC

Print_ISBN

1-55752-783-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2005.193136

Filename

1499729