Title :
Ultrafast and efficient optical Kerr effects in chalcogenide glass fibers and the application in all-optical switching
Author :
Asobe, Masaki ; Kanamori, Terutoshi ; Naganuma, Kazunori ; Itoh, Hiroki ; Kaino, Toshikuni
Author_Institution :
NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
This paper reports on the femtosecond nonlinear refractive response in As2S3-based glass fibers, and the use of small core fibers with large refractive index differences for reducing switching power. We also demonstrate all-optical switching in a 100-GHz pulse train using a laser diode as a gate pulse source
Keywords :
arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical elements; optical fibres; optical glass; optical switches; refractive index; 100 GHz; As2S3-based glass fibers; all-optical switching; chalcogenide glass fibers; efficient optical Kerr effects; femtosecond nonlinear refractive response; gate pulse source; large refractive index differences; laser diode; pulse train; reducing switching power; small core fibers; ultrafast all-optical switching; Diode lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1473-5
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.1994.470798
