• DocumentCode
    1375857
  • Title

    Demonstration of laser-diode-pumped ultrafast all-optical switching in a nonlinear Sagnac interferometer

  • Author

    Jinno, M. ; Matsumoto, T.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    75
  • Lastpage
    76
  • Abstract
    Ultrafast all-optical switching in a nonlinear Sagnac interferometer using picosecond pulses from a laser diode is reported. The key technologies are a highly stable fibre Sagnac interferometer with a long interaction length of 1600 m, and high-intensity 14 ps control pulses provided by a gain switched DFB-LD coupled with an erbium-doped fibre amplifier.
  • Keywords
    distributed feedback lasers; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical switches; DFB laser diode; Er doped fibre amplifier; high speed telecommunications; highly stable fibre Sagnac interferometer; laser-diode-pumped; long interaction length; nonlinear Sagnac interferometer; picosecond pulses; ultrafast all-optical switching;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910048
  • Filename
    60813
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1375857