DocumentCode
274480
Title
Diode laser pumped, Kerr phase-shifting and switching of a diode laser signal in a small core area optical fibre
Author
Davision, A.S. ; White, I.H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
fYear
1988
fDate
11-15 Sep 1988
Firstpage
131
Abstract
The authors report the first demonstration of a diode laser pumped, fibre Kerr gate able to phase-shift a second diode laser signal by 90°. Fast polarisation switching (equivalent to an intensity modulation of 25%) has been achieved
Keywords
high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical switches; semiconductor junction lasers; Kerr phase-shifting; Kerr phase-switching; diode laser; fibre Kerr gate; intensity modulation; optical communications; optical fibre; polarisation switching;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location
Brighton
Type
conf
Filename
93540
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