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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 476-478Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000476
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ECCS-0801772]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [0801772] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study the nonlinear polarization rotation induced by a pump pulse on a probe beam through cross-phase modulation inside a silicon waveguide and show that this phenomenon can be used to realize a fast Kerr shutter in spite of the free-carrier effects and walk-off. We show that free carriers generated by the pump pulse through two-photon absorption affect the switching process considerably, especially with the interaction of walk-off effects. However, numerical simulations reveal that their impact is not detrimental for short pump pulses. In this case, an approximate analytical solution predicts the shape and duration of the switching window with reasonable accuracy. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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