All-optical self-switching in optimized phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5083-5088

  Kabakova, Irina V ^a   Corcoran, Bill ^a   Bolger, Jeremy A ^a,b   De Sterke, C Martijn ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b II VI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

ALL OPTICAL; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR CHANGES; PEAK POWER; PHASE JUMPS; PHASE SHIFTED FIBER BRAGG GRATING (PSFBG); SELF-SWITCHING; SUB-NANOSECOND PULSE;

PHASE SHIFT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 65249084011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005083     Document Type: Article

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