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Self-compression pulse shaping by using non-degenerate two-photon absorption in silicon-on-insulator waveguides

J.-W. WU1,* , W.-H. ZHU1, Y. XU1, F.-G. LUO2

Affiliation

  1. Institute of Optoelectronics Science & College of Science, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, P.R. China
  2. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics & College of Optoelectronics Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China

Abstract

To shape the self-compression signal pulse induced by free carrier absorption (FCA) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides, in this letter a novel project is proposed and numerically simulated by co-propagating intensity pump pulse. Numerical results show that pulsewidth compression by up to a factor of ~3 can be achieved by adjusting the initial delay between pump and signal pulse. Furthermore, the properties of shaped pulse are strongly dependent on the parameters such as delay, energy and pulsewidth of pump pulse, and waveguide length.

Keywords

Integrated optics, Silicon-on-insulator waveguides, Optical pulse compression and shaping, Non-linear absorptions.

Citation

J.-W. WU, W.-H. ZHU, Y. XU, F.-G. LUO, Self-compression pulse shaping by using non-degenerate two-photon absorption in silicon-on-insulator waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 1, January 2009, pp.4-9 (2009).

Submitted at: Nov. 27, 2008

Accepted at: Jan. 21, 2009