All-optical 1 × N switching device by use of the phase modulation of spatial solitons

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4144-4147

  Wu, Yaw Dong ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLITONS;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICES; NONLINEAR MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (NMZI); NONLINEAR OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 22144480618     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004144     Document Type: Article

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