Co- and counter-propagating slow light systems
Toshihiko Baba, Keisuke Kondo
We report what we call co- and counter propagating slow-light systems based on the high nonlinearity in Si lattice-shifted
photonic crystal waveguides (LSPCWs). The intense slow-light pulse, as a control pulse, efficiently generates
two-photon absorption and carrier plasma effects, which tunes the dispersion characteristics of the LSPCWs and
spectrum of copropagating or counter-propagating slow-light pulse, as a signal pulse. Using the control pulse, we
succeeded in experimentally demonstrating adiabatic wavelength conversion and its enhancement, delay tuning of up to
10 ps with a response time <10 ps, and temporal pulse compression of factor 9.9 in the signal pulse. Furthermore, we
discussed theoretically the collision and reflection of the signal pulse counterpropagating against the control pulse
through the photonic-bandgap shift, resulting in a large Doppler shift. Considering the detail of these phenomena, we
clarified the relation and difference between the adiabatic wavelength conversion, cross-phase modulation, and Doppler
shift, which have been unclear so far.
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE•Jan 1, 2016•0 citations