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Quantum-well intermixing for the control of second-order nonlinear effects in AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguides

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Abstract

We present experimental evidence to demonstrate the feasibility of a promising new quasi-phase-matching technique in AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguides. Non-phase-matched second-harmonic-generation measurements indicate that, for sub-half-bandgap excitation near 1.5 µm, quantum-well intermixing by impurity-free vacancy disordering results in a reduction of the nonlinear susceptibility χzxy2 340 pm/V by 17%. Relatively low intermixed waveguide losses, and the high spatial resolution of the impurity-free vacancy disordering process, suggest that periodic intermixing along the direction of propagation should lead to useful frequency-conversion efficiencies.

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