Lossless all-optical phase gate using a polarization-division Sagnac interferometer applicable to a waveguide-type Kerr medium

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Matsuda, Nobuyuki ^a   Mitsumori, Yasuyoshi ^b   Kosaka, Hideo ^b   Edamatsu, Keiichi ^b   Shimizu, Ryosuke ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFTS; PHASE GATES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS;

OPTICAL LOSSES;

EID: 35548939867     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2801697     Document Type: Article

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