All-optical switch based on the local nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 9883-9892

  Wu, Yaw Dong ^a   Huang, Min Lun ^a   Chen, Mao Hsiung ^b   Tasy, Rong Zhan ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFTERS; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL SWITCHING; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 34547818176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009883     Document Type: Article

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