All optical switching in a highly birefringent and a standard telecom fiber using a Faraday mirror stabilization scheme

Optics Communications

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 335-341

  Vinegoni, C ^a   Wegmuller, M ^a   Huttner, B ^a   Gisin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FARADAY EFFECT; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); FARADAY MIRRORS; JONES TRANSFER MATRICES; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS (PBS);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034247516     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00845-2     Document Type: Article

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