Phase-insensitive all-optical transistors based on second-order nonlinearities

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 666-672

  Kim, Sungwon ^a   Wang, Zuo ^a   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a   Kobyakov, Andrey ^b   Lederer, Falk ^b   Assanto, Gaetano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical materials devices; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical switches

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001010902     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.663446     Document Type: Article

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