Coupled-waveguide-based semiconductor dispersion compensators

Yong Lee

doi:10.1117/12.381457

28 March 2000 Coupled-waveguide-based semiconductor dispersion compensators

Yong Lee

Proceedings Volume 3940, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381457
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

InGaAsP/InP slab-type coupled waveguides consisting of two dissimilar waveguides were experimentally studied as potential dispersion compensators. A narrowing of the autocorrelation signals from the coupled waveguides was experimentally observed and the smallest narrowing factor was 0.233. The narrowing agrees well with the calculated narrowing obtained by a theoretical model based on group- velocity dispersions (GVDs) associated with supermodes. This agreement strongly indicates that the observed narrowing is attributed to pulse compression by dispersion compensation by using the GVDs of the supermodes. Furthermore, controllability of the GVDs of the coupled waveguide was preliminarily demonstrated by changing the spacing between the dissimilar waveguides: pulse-broadening and pulse- compression experiments showed that the GVDs of two coupled waveguides with different spacings are significantly different. In other words, the GVDs of a coupled waveguide increase with increasing spacing. this result is consistent with the theoretically predicted increase in the GVDs.

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Yong Lee "Coupled-waveguide-based semiconductor dispersion compensators", Proc. SPIE 3940, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors IV, (28 March 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381457

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Dispersion

Waveguides

Semiconductors

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