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Asobe et al., 1992 - Google Patents

Ultrafast all-optical switching in a walk-off-suppressed nonlinear fiber loop mirror switch

Asobe et al., 1992

Document ID
5224569403352304305
Author
Asobe M
Itoh H
Kubodera K
Publication year
Publication venue
Optics communications

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The walk-off effect of a nonlinear fiber loop mirror switch was experimentally investigated. Using 3 ps pulse pumping at 1.32 μm, a wavelength tunable signal pulse around 1.55 μm, and a dispersion shifted polarization maintaining (PANDA) fiber as a loop, the group delay …
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    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating, or modulating; Non-linear optics
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    • G02F—DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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