Low power all-optical switching in a nonlinear optical loop mirror using chalcogenide glass fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1396-1397

  Asobe, M ^a   Ohara, T ^a   Yokohama, I ^a   Kaino, T ^a,b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical fibres; Photonic switching

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SHUTTERS; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCHING; DEMULTIFLEXING; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; FRESNEL REFLECTION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030192786     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960910     Document Type: Article

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