Enhanced all-optical switching by use of a nonlinear fiber ring resonator

Optics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 847-849

  Heebner, John E ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); NONLINEAR FIBER RING RESONATORS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032615102     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.000847     Document Type: Article

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