Numerical study of soliton switching in active three-core nonlinear fiber couplers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 874-878

  Buah, P A ^b   Rahman, B M A ^a,b   Grattan, K T V ^b  

^a IEEE

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active nonlinear fiber couplers; Finite element methods; Soliton switching; Tri core fiber couplers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS;

BEAM PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; SOLITON SWITCHING; TRICORE FIBER COUPLERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0031141597     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572163     Document Type: Article

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