Broadband switching of polychromatic light in nonlinear waveguide couplers

Author

Garanovich, Ivan L. ; Sukhorukov, Andrey A. ; Kivshar, Yuri S.

Author_Institution

Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate that the operating bandwidth of a conventional coupler created by pair of parallel waveguides can be dramatically improved by introducing periodic bending of waveguide axes in the propagation direction. We suggest a novel design of a nonlinear directional coupler which can be used for all-optical switching of polychromatic light with broad frequency spectrum such as the output of white-light and supercontinuum sources.

Keywords

light sources; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical directional couplers; supercontinuum generation; waveguide discontinuities; broad frequency spectrum; broadband all-optical switching; nonlinear directional waveguide coupler design; parallel waveguides; periodic waveguide bending; polychromatic light; propagation direction; supercontinuum sources; white-light sources; Bandwidth; Couplers; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Switches; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386129

Filename

4386129