Ultrafast Switching with Nonlinear Optics
DOI: 10.1063/1.881431
Remember when we optimized our computer programs to minimize the memory usage, even at the expense of readability of the code? Now, with an abundance of memory, we no longer worry about the memory requirements. Remember when we minimized the gate count in a circuit by using techniques such as Karnaugh maps? Now, with VLSI and ULSI chips, gate count is no longer an issue. Yet in telecommunications many applications still need to be optimized to fit within bandwidth limitations. Researchers in optics and photonics dream of making bandwidth an inexpensive, virtually limitless commodity, so that we will be able to tailor applications to optimize their functionality without regard to bandwidth.
This article is only available in PDF format
References
1. A. Lattes, H. A. Haus, F. J. Leonberger, E. P. Ippen, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 19, 1718 (1983).https://doi.org/IEJQA7
2. V. Mizrahi, K. W. DeLong, G. I. Stegeman, M. A. Saifi, M. J. Andrejco, Opt. Lett. 14, 1140 (1989).https://doi.org/OPLEDP
3. M. Sheik‐Bahae, D. J. Hagan, E. W. Van Stryland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 96 (1990).https://doi.org/PRLTAO
4. M. N. Islam, Ultrafast Fiber Switching Devices and Systems, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, England (1992).
5. N. J. Doran, D. Wood, Opt. Lett. 13, 56 (1988).https://doi.org/OPLEDP
6. N. A. Whitaker, H. Avramopoulos, P. M. W. French, M. C. Gabriel, R. E. LaMarche, D. J. DiGiovanni, H. M. Presby, Opt. Lett. 16, 1838 (1991).
7. P. D. Drummond, R. M. Shelby, S. R. Friberg, Y. Yamamoto, Nature 365, 307 (1993). https://doi.org/OPLEDP
K. Bergman, H. A. Haus, Opt. Lett. 16, 663 (1991).https://doi.org/OPLEDP8. M. N. Islam, C. E. Soccolich, R. E. Slusher, A. F. J. Levi, W. S. Hobson, M. G. Young, J. Appl. Phys. 71, 1927 (1992).https://doi.org/JAPIAU
9. J. S. Aitchison, A. H. Kean, C. N. Ironside, A. Villeneuve, G. I. Stegeman, Electron. Lett. 27, 1709 (1991). https://doi.org/ELLEAK
K. Al‐hemyari, A. Villeneuve, J. U. Kang, J. S. Aitchison, C. N. Ironside, G. I. Stegeman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 63, 3562 (1993).https://doi.org/APPLAB10. M. N. Islam, Opt. Lett. 15, 417 (1990). https://doi.org/OPLEDP
M. N. Islam, C. E. Soccolich, D. A. B. Miller, Opt. Lett. 15, 909 (1990).https://doi.org/OPLEDP11. M. N. Islam, C.‐J. Chen, C. E. Soccolich, Opt. Lett. 16, 484 (1991).https://doi.org/OPLEDP
12. E. Desurvire, Sci. Am., January 1992, p. 114.
13. S. Fisher, Byte, July 1991, p. 181.
14. J. R. Sauer, M. N. Islam, S. P. Dijaili, J. Lightwave Technol. 11, 2182 (1993).https://doi.org/JLTEDG
More about the authors
Mohammed N. Islam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
