Low-power all-optical switch based on the bend effect of a nm fiber taper driven by outgoing light

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4640-4645

  Yu, Jianhui ^a   Feng, Raohui ^a   She, Weilong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; BEND EFFECT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FIBER TAPER; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; LOW POWER; NONLINEAR EFFECT; TURN-ON TIME;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 62549103322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004640     Document Type: Article

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