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Ultrafast Optical Demultiplexer Using a Spincoated Squarylium-Dye Film Izumi IWASA Makoto FURUKI Minquan TIAN Yasuhiro SATO Satoshi TATSUURA Osamu WADA Lyong Sun PU Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E85-C No.1 pp.167-173 Publication Date: 2002/01/01 Online ISSN: DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Ultrafast Optical Signal Processing and Its Application) Category: Ultrafast All-Optical Switching, Optical Delay and Waveform Control Keyword: squarylium, J aggregates, optical switch, Tbps, femtosecond, Full Text: PDF>>
Summary: 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, 2  4 spatially resolved spots were obained. | |||||
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