Optical bistability and differential amplification in a tapered fiber coupler - microsphere resonator with nonlinear medium

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 245-249

  Lu, Ying ^a   Wang, Ji You ^a   Xu, Xiao Xuan ^a   Pan, Shi Hong ^a   Zhang, Cun Zhou ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

OPTICAL DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFICATION;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0034203865     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(00)00052-9     Document Type: Article

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