Ultrafast all-optical switching in a dual-core fiber nonlinear coupler
- 12 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 51 (15), 1135-1137
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.98762
Abstract
We report the first demonstration of a nonlinear coupler switch capable of substantially complete all-optical switching at subpicosecond rates with no light-induced thermal effects.Keywords
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