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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1993
Stephen R Forrest, Princeton, NJ (US);
De Yu Zang, Irvine, CA (US);
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
All-optical modulation occurs in crystalline organic semiconductor waveguides (10a) grown by the ultrahigh vacuum process of organic molecular-beam deposition onto substrates (10b). Two light beams with wavelengths of 1.06 and 0.514 .mu.m from a first source (12) and a second source (34), respectively, may be used as the guided and the pump light sources, respectively. A resonant non-linear coefficient at room temperature of 5.4.times.10.sup.-5 cm.sup.2 /W at 1.06 .mu.occurs at a pump intensity of 1.0 W/cm.sup.2. This large non-linear effect is attributed to free electron-hole pairs produced by the dissociation of excitons generated by the short wavelength beam. A carrier lifetime of (17.+-.1) us, which determines the modulator switching time, is in good agreement with theoretical predictions. This appears to be the first observation of free-carrier-induced index modulation in crystalline organic waveguides.