Title :
Ultrafast switching in highly birefringent fiber via soliton collision
Author :
Koehler, S.D. ; Leng, Lian ; Kutz, J. Nathan ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We present theoretical and experimental results of the nonlinear phase shift obtained through a collision between two orthogonally-polarized soliton pulses in a highly birefringent polarisation-maintaining (PM) optical fiber. The pulses are not strictly solitons since they are described by the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
Keywords :
Schrodinger equation; birefringence; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical solitons; coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations; highly birefringent fiber; highly birefringent polarisation-maintaining optical fiber communication; nonlinear phase shift; optical fiber switches; orthogonally-polarized soliton pulse collisions; soliton collision; ultrafast switching; Birefringence; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Mirrors; Numerical simulation; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Ultrafast optics; Vision defects;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
