Comparison of Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder ultrafast all-optical interferometric switches based on a semiconductor resonant optical nonlinearity

Kang, K. I. and Chang, T. G. and Glesk, I. and Prucnal, P. R. (1996) Comparison of Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder ultrafast all-optical interferometric switches based on a semiconductor resonant optical nonlinearity. Applied Optics, 35 (3). pp. 417-426. ISSN 0003-6935 (https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.35.000417)

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Abstract

We present a theoretical analysis of recently demonstrated ultrafast all-optical interferometric switching devices (based on Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder interferometers) that use a large optical nonlinearity in a resonant regime. These devices achieve ∼10-ps switching windows and do not require high-energy optical control pulses. We theoretically analyze and compare one Sagnac and two Mach-Zehnder switching configurations.

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Kang, K. I., Chang, T. G., Glesk, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-8069 and Prucnal, P. R.;
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