All-optical method of conducting long-distance switching by proper use of an electro-optic Pockels material and a nonlinear optical waveguide

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Mandal, Prasanta ^a   Bhowmic, Harihar ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sourangshu ^a,b  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulator; Kerr nonlinearity; Optical fiber

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR; ELECTRO-OPTIC POCKELS MATERIAL; KERR NONLINEARITY; LONG-DISTANCE SWITCHING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 33749391217     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2227365     Document Type: Article

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