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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Ultrafast Optical Demultiplexer Using a Spincoated Squarylium-Dye Film

Izumi IWASA, Makoto FURUKI, Minquan TIAN, Yasuhiro SATO, Satoshi TATSUURA, Osamu WADA, Lyong Sun PU

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We fabricated ultrafast nonlinear optical films of squarylium J-aggregates and studied their properties including the absorption spectrum, the refractive index, the third-order nonlinear optical coefficients, the extent of absorption saturation, and the recovery of absorption saturation. The transmittance of the film was increased by 30% due to absorption saturation at a pump energy of several hundreds fJ/µm2/pulse. The half decay time constant of absorption saturation was found to be approximately 100 fs for off-resonant excitation. Two-dimensional demultiplexing was demonstrated using the squarylium film as a switching material. From a train of 8 optical pulses with 100 fs duration and 1 ps interval corresponding to a bit rate of 1 Tbps, 24 spatially resolved spots were obained.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E85-C No.1 pp.167-173
Publication Date
2002/01/01
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Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Ultrafast Optical Signal Processing and Its Application)
Category
Ultrafast All-Optical Switching, Optical Delay and Waveform Control

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