{"title":"All-Optical ASK-DPSK Signal Regeneration Using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier","authors":"M. Fok, C. Shu, D. Blumenthal","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431225","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate 10-Gb/s and 20-Gb/s DPSK and ASK-DPSK signal regeneration based on cross-phase modulation in a SOA. The amplitude noise is reduced and the receiver sensitivity is improved by 3 dB.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130879216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-Order Enhancement of Multi-Frequency Raman Generation in a Hollow Fibre","authors":"F. Turner, D. Strickland","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452496","url":null,"abstract":"Stimulated Raman scattering with resonant two-colour pumping can produce coherent bandwidths ranging from the IR to the UV. By balancing the dispersion of the Raman-active gas with that of a hollow dielectric waveguide, the higher-frequency anti- Stokes orders are enhanced and are shown to exhibit novel behaviours.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131239443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B.G. Lee, R. Audet, J. Macarthur, M. Belkin, L. Diehl, C. Pflugl, F. Capasso, D. Bour, S. Corzine, J. Zhu, G. Hofler
{"title":"Broadly Tunable Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Laser Source","authors":"B.G. Lee, R. Audet, J. Macarthur, M. Belkin, L. Diehl, C. Pflugl, F. Capasso, D. Bour, S. Corzine, J. Zhu, G. Hofler","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452347","url":null,"abstract":"We construct a compact broadly tunable single mode quantum cascade laser source that can be used for mid-infrared spectroscopy. The source consists of an array of closely-spaced distributed feedback lasers and a CMOS controller.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130965836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Bowers, A. Fang, Hyundai Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. Paniccia
{"title":"Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology","authors":"J. Bowers, A. Fang, Hyundai Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. Paniccia","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453063","url":null,"abstract":"The hybrid silicon evanescent device platform utilizes III -V gain materials bonded to passive silicon waveguides. In this paper, we discuss this device platform, and present hybrid silicon evanescent laser and amplifier device results.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133005592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buried As2S3 Strips for High-Mode-Confinement Optical Waveguiding","authors":"M. Solmaz, R. Atkins, J. Gardner, C. Madsen","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453114","url":null,"abstract":"As<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub> strips were fabricated on thermal oxide using a lift-off procedure. Buried structures are formed by covering the strips with SiO<sub>2</sub>, and initial optical testing confirms waveguiding.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133060734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, H. Taniyama
{"title":"Photon Trapping, Delaying, and Dynamic-Control using Ultra-small High-Q Photonic Crystal Cavities","authors":"T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, H. Taniyama","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452435","url":null,"abstract":"By employing ultra-small high-Q photonic crystal nanocavities, we demonstrated 1-ns photon trapping and 1.45-ns pulse delaying. The corresponding light speed is 5,800 km/s. We also demonstrated dynamic tuning of the Q within the photon lifetime.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133069418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Sun, Masood Ghotbi, S. Minardi, M. Ebrahim-Zadeh
{"title":"Highly Efficient, Widely Tunable, Picosecond Optical Parametric Generation and Amplification in BiB3O6","authors":"Z. Sun, Masood Ghotbi, S. Minardi, M. Ebrahim-Zadeh","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453133","url":null,"abstract":"Broadly tunable picosecond pulses from the ultraviolet to infrared (370-2497 nm) have been obtained by optical parametric generation and amplification in BiB3O6. Pulse energies of 48.6 muj at conversion efficiencies as high as 30% have been generated.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133514448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micromachined Quantum-Well Air-Clad Waveguides","authors":"T. Stievater, W. Rabinovich, D. Park","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452790","url":null,"abstract":"We have used surface micromachining to fabricate suspended InGaAs quantum well waveguides that are supported by lateral tethers. Their enhanced electro-optical and nonlinear-optical properties will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133649450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selectively Populating a Quantum Dot Ensemble Using a Tunnel Injection Structure","authors":"A. George, P. Smowton, Z. Mi, P. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452596","url":null,"abstract":"We have analysed the carrier distribution of a tunnel injection quantum dot laser to reveal features which suggest dots of a particular size are preferentially populated during the tunnel injection process.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132734143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Chern, H. Shen, M. Wraback, G. Koblmuller, C. Gallinat, J. Speck
{"title":"Excitation Wavelength Dependence of Terahertz Emission from Indium Nitride Multiple Quantum Wells","authors":"G. Chern, H. Shen, M. Wraback, G. Koblmuller, C. Gallinat, J. Speck","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452857","url":null,"abstract":"We report the excitation wavelength dependence of terahertz emission from N-face InN/InGaN multiple quantum wells relative to that from bulk N-face InN when excited by femtosecond optical pulses tunable from 800 nm to 1700 nm.","PeriodicalId":193475,"journal":{"name":"2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128898531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}