Switching behaviour of a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 575-590

  Srivastava, Arpita ^a   Paltani, Punya Prasanna ^a   Medhekar, S ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Kerr effect; Mach zehnder interferometer; Self phase modulation

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; BALANCE POINT; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; KERR EFFECT; KERR EFFECTS; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS;

KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SWITCHING;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 77951866940     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12043-010-0051-6     Document Type: Article

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