Time domain all-optical demultiplexing with a semiconductor directional coupler
Author(s) -
A. Villeneuve,
P. V. Mamyshev,
Jin U Kang,
G. I. Stegeman,
J. S. Aitchison,
C. N. Ironside
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.113887
Subject(s) - multiplexing , semiconductor , optoelectronics , power dividers and directional couplers , optics , gallium arsenide , materials science , pulse (music) , nonlinear optics , photon , physics , telecommunications , laser , computer science , detector
We report the demonstration of demultiplexing of 150 fs pulses, without pulse breakup, in an AlGaAs nonlinear directional coupler operated at photon energies below half the band gap energy of AlGaAs.
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