Ultrafast all optical switching using pulse trapping in birefringent fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8128-8135

  Nishizawa, Norihiko ^a   Ukai, Yosuke ^a   Goto, Toshio ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL SWITCHING; SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; SOLITON PULSES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 30144443913     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008128     Document Type: Article

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