Accession Number:

ADA191496

Title:

Signal Processing with Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Sep 83-31 Aug 87,

Corporate Author:

ARIZONA UNIV TUCSON OPTICAL SCIENCES CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Stegeman, G. I.
• Seaton, C. T.

Report Date:

1987-12-07

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

The original goals of this program were 1. To demonstrate degenerate four-wave mixing in planar waveguides, 2. To fabricate nonlinear organic waveguides using the Langmuir-Blodgett L-B technique, and 3. To demonstrate all-optical signal processing based on degenerate four-wave mixing. During the course of this program, it became clear that nonlinear organic waveguides based on L-B deposition techniques would never exhibit losses low enough for guided-wave degenerate four-wave mixing. As a result, it was decided 4. To develop semiconductor-doped glass waveguides, 5. To demonstrate degenerate four-wave mixing in these waveguides, and 6. To demonstrate all-optical signal processing in semiconductor-doped waveguides.

Descriptors:

• *NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
• *OPTICAL PROCESSING
• *SIGNAL PROCESSING
• *WAVEGUIDES
• PLANAR STRUCTURES

Subject Categories:

• Optics
• Cybernetics
• Miscellaneous Detection and Detectors

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE