Low power all-optical switching in a nonlinear opticalloop mirror using chalcogenide glass fibre

18 July 1996

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 32 (15) , 1396-1397
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19960910

Abstract

All-optical switching is demonstrated using a nonlinear loop mirror containing a low loss As₂S₃ based fibre module. The gate power is reduced to as little as 0.4 W(peak) using a 4 m long As₂S₃ fibre. Demultiplexing of a 40 GHz pulse train to 4 GHz is demonstrated.

Keywords

This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:

Efficient and ultrafast all-optical switching using high Δ n , small core chalcogenide glass fibre
Electronics Letters, 1993
Laser-diode-driven ultrafast all-optical switching by using highly nonlinear chalcogenide glass fiber
Optics Letters, 1993
Thermally-diffused expanded core fibres for low-loss and inexpensive photonic components
Electronics Letters, 1991
Two-wavelength operation of the nonlinear fiber loop mirror
Optics Letters, 1990