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creators_name: Lacava, C.
creators_name: Strain, M.J.
creators_name: Minzioni, P.
creators_name: Cristiani, I.
creators_name: Sorel, M.
creators_orcid: 0000-0001-8365-4496
title: Integrated nonlinear Mach Zehnder for 40 Gbit/s all-optical switching
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abstract: We report on the experimental demonstration of a novel silicon based fully integrated nonlinear Mach Zehnder device. A standard silicon waveguide is used as a nonlinear arm, conversely a large mode SU-8 waveguide acts as a purely linear arm. Given this asymmetry, an intensity dependent phase shift can be introduced between the two interferometric arms. Thanks to a fine tuning of the silicon arm optical properties, a low power, ultrafast, picosecond operation is demonstrated, allowing the use of this device for ultrafast all-optical signal processing in high density communication networks.
date: 2013-09-09
date_type: published
publisher: Optical Society of America
id_number: 10.1364/OE.21.021587
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.021587
uniqueid: glaseprints:2013-97090
published_online: 2013-09-06
full_text_status: none
publication: Optics Express
volume: 21
number: 18
pagerange: 21587
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1094-4087
hoa_compliant: 305
hoa_date_pub: 2013-09-09
hoa_exclude: FALSE
hoa_gold: FALSE
citation:    Lacava, C., Strain, M.J. <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/10537.html>, Minzioni, P., Cristiani, I. and Sorel, M. <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/10351.html>  (2013)  Integrated nonlinear Mach Zehnder for 40 Gbit/s all-optical switching.   Optics Express <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Optics_Express.html>, 21(18),  p. 21587.   (doi: 10.1364/OE.21.021587 <https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.021587>)