Effects of saturation and loss on nonlinear directional couplers
- 20 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 50 (16) , 1035-1037
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.97962
Abstract
We show that large changes are introduced into the operational characteristics of nonlinear directional couplers by both loss and saturation of the nonlinearity, especially the latter. Specific numerical examples are given.Keywords
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