Generation of Ultrafast Bright and Dark Pulse on Silicon Chip with Integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Configuration

Authors : Jianwei WU, Fengguang LUO

Pages : 101-108

Doi:10.3906/sag-1211-11

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this paper we propose and simulate ultrafast femtosecond bright and dark pulses, obtained simultaneously at the same center wavelength, based on silicon-on-insulator insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SOI); waveguides in Mach-Zehnder interferometer insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MZI); configuration; the ultrafast pulsed pump is injected into one MZI`s arm and a continuous wave component insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CW); is divided equally into the two MZI arms. Numerical results show that properties of the generated bright and dark pulses are strongly dependent on the launching optical powers of both the pump pulse and CW carriers, and on the waveguide length.
Keywords : Integrated optics, silicon on insulator technology, ultrafast process, pulse generation