Analysis of bistable steady characteristics and dynamic stability of linearly tapered nonlinear Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2945-2953

  Jia, Xin Hong ^a   Wu Zheng Mao, ^a   Xia, Guang Qiong ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT MODULATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

DYNAMIC STABILITY; LINEARLY TAPERED NONLINEAR BRAGG GRATINGS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 4644319998     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002945     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. D. N. Christodoulides, and R. I. Joseph, "Slow bragg solitons in Nonlinear periodic structures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1746-1749 (1989).
2. B. J. Eggleton, G. Lenz, and N. M. Litchinitser, "Optical pulse compression schemes that use nonlinear Bragg gratings," Fiber and Integrated Opt. 19, 383-421 (2000).
3. N. G. R. Broderick, P. Millar, D. J. Richardson, J. S. Aitchson, R. De La Rue, and T. Krauss, "Spectral features associated with nonlinear pulse compression in Bragg gratings," Opt. Lett. 25, 740-742 (2000).
4. H. G. Winful, J. H. Marburger, and E. Garmire, "Theory of bistability in nonlinear distributed feedback structures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 35, 379-381 (1979).
5. N. G. R. Broderick, D. Taverner, and D. J. Richardson, "Nonlinear switching in fibre Bragg gratings," Opt. Express 3, 447-453 (1998), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-3-11-447
6. N. Peyghambarian, and H. M. Gibbs, "Optical nonlinearity, bistability, and signal processing in semiconductors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2, 1215-1227 (1985).
7. L. Brzozowski, and E. H. Sargent, "Optical signal processing using nonlinear distributed feedback structures," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 36, 550-555 (2000).
8. G. P. Agrawal, and S. Radie, "Phased-shifted fiber Bragg gratings and their application for wavelength demultiplexing," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 6, 995-997 (1994).
9. S. Radic, N. George, and G. P. Agrawal, "Optical switching in λ/4-shifted nonlinear periodic structures," Opt. Lett. 19, 1789-1791 (1994).
10. S. Radic, N. George, and G. P. Agrawal, "Theory of low-threshold optical switching in nonlinear, phase-shifted, periodic structures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 671-680 (1995).
11. S. Radic, N. George, and G. P. Agrawal, "Analysis of nonuniform nonlinear distributed feedback structures: Generalized transfer matrix method," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 31, 1326-1336 (1995).
12. Y. A. Logvin, and V. M. Volkov," Phase sensitivity of a nonlinear Bragg grating response under bidirectional illumination," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 774-780 (1999).
13. J. M. Liu, C. J. Liao, S. H. Liu, and W. C. Xu, "The dynamics of direction-dependent switching in nonlinear chirped gratings," Opt. Commun. 130, 295-301 (1996).
14. H. Lee, and G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear switching of optical pulses in fiber Bragg gratings," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 39, 508-515 (2003).
15. F. Marquis, P. Dobiasch, P. Meystre, and E. M. Wright, "Slaved bistability and self-pulsing in a nonlinear interferometer," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 50-59 (1986).
16. D. Pelinovsky, and E. H. Sargent, "Stable all-optical limiting in nonlinear periodic structures. II. Computations," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 1873-1889 (2002).
17. R. A. Betts, T. Tjugiarto, Y. L. Xue and P. L. Chu, "Nonlinear refractive index in erbium doped optical fiber: Theory and experiment," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 27, 908-913 (1991).
18. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic, San Diego, 1995).