Designing of optical switches controlled by light intensity in cascaded optical couplers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kishikawa, Hiroki ^a   Goto, Nobuo ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupled mode theory; Optical coupler; Optical switch; Raman amplifier

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; LIGHT-WAVE SWITCHING; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34250734037     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2719721     Document Type: Article

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