Waveguide Nonlinear-Optic Devices for Optical Communications

GaN-based waveguide devices for long-wavelength optical communications

Refractive indices of AlxGa12xN with different Al concentrations have been measured in infrared wavelength regions. Single-mode ridged optical waveguide devices using GaN/AlGaN heterostructures have been designed, fabricated, and characterized for operation in 1550 nm wavelength window. The feasibility of developing photonic integrated circuits based on III-nitride wide-band-gap semiconductors ...

Dichroic mirror embedded in a submicrometer waveguide for enhanced resonant nonlinear optical devices.

We report the design, fabrication and characterization of novel dichroic mirrors embedded in a tightly confining AlGaAs/Al(x)O(y) waveguide. Reflection at the first-harmonic wavelength as high as 93% is achieved, while high transmission is maintained at the second-harmonic wavelength. The measured cavity spectrum is in excellent agreement with finite-difference time-domain simulations. Such a m...

Bent-waveguide Devices and Mechano-optical Switches

Interlaced linear-nonlinear optical waveguide arrays.

The system of coupled discrete equations describing a two-component superlattice with interlaced linear and nonlinear constituents is studied as a basis for investigating binary waveguide arrays, such as ribbed AlGaAs structures, among others. Compared to the single nonlinear lattice, the interlaced system exhibits an extra band-gap controlled by the, suitably chosen by design, relative detunin...

Nonlinear photonic quasicrystals for novel optical devices

Two well-known methods for the design of quasicrystal models are used to create novel nonlinear optical devices. These devices are useful for efficient three-wave mixing of several different processes, and therefore offer greater flexibility with respect to the more common periodic nonlinear photonic crystals. We demonstrate applications for polarization switching as well as multi-wavelength an...