All-optical switching in Sagnac loop mirror containing an ytterbium-doped fiber and fiber Bragg grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5701-5706

  Zang, Zhigang ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE MODULATION; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; ULTRA-FAST RESPONSE TIME; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 84881427638     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.005701     Document Type: Article

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