Resonantly enhanced nonhinearities in rare earth doped fibres and waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2841, Issue , 1996, Pages 172-182

  Arkwright, John ^a   Atkins, Graham ^b   Canning, John ^b   Chu, Pak ^c   Janos, Mark ^b   Sceats, Mark ^b   Wu, Bin ^c  

^a Siemens Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Rare earth doped fibres; Rare earth doped planar waveguides; Resonant nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; METAL IONS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RARE EARTHS; RELAXATION TIME; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; INTERACTION LENGTH; PHASE CHANGE; PUMP POWER; RARE EARTH DOPANTS; RARE EARTH DOPED; RARE EARTH IONS; RESONANT NONLINEARITY;

RARE EARTH-DOPED FIBERS;

EID: 84974564761     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.258969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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