Proposal for optical switch using nonlinear refraction

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1579-1581

  Medhekar, S ^a   Paltani, Punya Prasanna ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

All optical devices; Refraction at nonlinear interface all optical switching

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTION; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; NONLINEAR INTERFACE; NONLINEAR MEDIA;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 33745960554     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.878147     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. T. K. Gustafson and P. W. Smith, Eds., Photonics Switching. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
2. J. P. Sabini, N. Finlayson, and G. I. Stegeman, "All-optical switching in nonlinear X junction," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 55, pp. 1176-1178, Sep. 1989.
3. G. I. Stegeman and C. T. Seaton, "Nonlinear integrated optics," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 58, pp. R57-R78, Dec. 1985.
4. T.-T. Shi and S. Chi, "Nonlinear photonic switching by using the spatial soliton collision," Opt. Lett., vol. 15, pp. 1123-1125, Oct. 1990.
5. S. R. Friberg, "Demonstration of colliding-soliton all-optical switching," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 63, pp. 429-431, Jul. 1993.
6. S. Medhekar, M. S. Sodha, and S. Konar, "Optical power filter: A new kind of passive nonlinear-optical device," Opt. Lett., vol. 21, pp. 305-307, Feb. 1996.
7. L. Lefort and A. Barthelemy, "All-optical demultiplexing of a signal using collision and waveguiding of spatial solitons," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1364-1366, Oct. 1997.
8. M. Peccianti, C. Conti, G. Assanto, A. De Luca, and C. Umeton, "All-optical switching and logic gating with spatial solitons in liquid crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 81, pp. 3335-3337, Oct. 2002.
9. S. Medhekar and R. K. Sarkar, "All-optical passive transistor," Opt. Lett., vol. 30, pp. 887-889, Apr. 2005.
10. J. Scheuer and M. Orenstein, "All-optical gates facilitated by soliton interactions in a multilayered Kerr medium," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 22, pp. 1260-1267, Jun. 2005.
11. B. Aceves, J. V. Moloney, and A. C. Newell, "Theory of light-beam propagation at nonlinear interface. 1. Equivalent-partical theory for a single interface," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 39, pp. 1809-1827, Feb. 1989.
12. P. J. Bradley and C. De Angelis, "Soliton dynamics and surface waves at the interface between saturable nonlinear dielectrics," Opt. Commun., vol. 130, pp. 205-218, Sep. 1996.
13. J. Scheuer and M. Orenstein, "Interaction and switching of spatial soliton pairs in the vicinity of nonlinear interface," Opt. Lett., vol. 24, pp. 1735-1737, Dec. 1999.
14. W. P. Huang and C. L. Xu, "A wide-angle vector beam propagation method," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1118-1120, Oct. 1992.
15. P.-C. Lee and E. Voges, "Three-dimensional semi-vectorial wide-angle beam propagation method," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 215-225, Feb. 1994.
16. A. K. Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan, Optical Electronics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989, pp. 410-412.
17. S. Medhekar, R. K. Sarkar, and P. P. Paltani, "Coupled spatial-soliton pairs in saturable nonlinear media," Opt. Lett., vol. 31, pp. 77-79, Jan. 2006.