Saturation of the nonlinear refractive-index change in a semiconductor-doped glass channel waveguide
- 6 February 1989
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 54 (6) , 481-483
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.101361
Abstract
The saturated nonlinear refractive‐index change in a CdSxSe1−x semiconductor‐doped glass channel waveguide was measured with a picosecond pump‐probe Mach–Zehnder interferometer at photon energies below the band gap. The pump‐probe configuration permitted the resolution of competing thermal and electronic nonlinearities. The significance of the results for all‐optical switching is discussed.Keywords
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