Application of optical cross talk to switching between bistable soliton states
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 15 (3) , 162-164
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.15.000162
Abstract
The dynamics of bistable soliton propagation and switching in a fiber whose intensity-dependent refractive index is described by the linear plus smooth-step model is numerically investigated under conditions where the fiber is evanescently coupled to an identical, initially empty, parallel fiber. The initially empty fiber can perform a number of useful operations on solitons in the first fiber, which could be of interest in optical device design.Keywords
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