The Nonlinear Asymmetric Mach Zehnder Interferometer in GaAs/AIGaAs

M. O'Neill; J. Bell; B. S. Bhumbra; T. J. Cullen; C. N. Ironside; O. Mikami

doi:10.1364/IGWO.1988.WC6

Integrated and Guided-Wave Optics
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1988),
paper WC6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/IGWO.1988.WC6

The Nonlinear Asymmetric Mach Zehnder Interferometer in GaAs/AIGaAs

M. O'Neill, J. Bell, B. S. Bhumbra, T. J. Cullen, C. N. Ironside, and O. Mikami

Integrated and Guided Wave Optics 1988

Santa Fe, New Mexico United States
28–30 March 1988
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M. O'Neill, J. Bell, B. S. Bhumbra, T. J. Cullen, C. N. Ironside, and O. Mikami, "The Nonlinear Asymmetric Mach Zehnder Interferometer in GaAs/AIGaAs," in Integrated and Guided-Wave Optics, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1988), paper WC6.

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Abstract

We describe the operation of an all-optical switching device based upon an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. Device fabrication techniques in GaAS/AlGaAs materials are summarised. The switching characteristics of the device are analysed using the nonlinear beam-propagation method.

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