Wavelength Conversion and Pulse Reshaping Through Cascaded Interactions in an MZI Configuration

Luca Razzari; Carlo Liberale; Ilaria Cristiani; Riccardo Tediosi; Vittorio Degiorgio

doi:10.1109/JQE.2003.818310

Wavelength Conversion and Pulse Reshaping Through Cascaded Interactions in an MZI Configuration

Luca Razzari^*, Carlo Liberale, Ilaria Cristiani, Riccardo Tediosi, Vittorio Degiorgio

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Abstract

An optical wavelength converter based on second-order cascaded interactions in a waveguide is presented. The conversion mechanism relies on the combination of amplification and nonlinear dephasing of a signal field in the presence of a strong pump field at the phase-matching wavelength for second-harmonic generation. The considered scheme of the device is that of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The performance is numerically evaluated in the pulsed regime. A wide conversion bandwidth and high conversion efficiency is found. An operating regime can be found in which a significant reshaping of the output pulses, with respect to input pulses, can be observed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1486-1491
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	39
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2003.818310
State	Published - Nov 2003
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Guided-wave optics
Nonlinear optics
Optical frequency conversion
Optical propagation in nonlinear media

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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