Title :
Semiconductor-doped fibre waveguides exhibiting picosecond optical nonlinearity
Author :
Ainslie, B.J. ; Girdlestone, H.P. ; Cotter, D.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
Multicomponent-glass-based optical fibre has been fabricated having a core region doped with semiconductor crystallites. The fibre is shown to exhibit optical nonlinearity with picosecond response times.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical fibres; core region; multicomponent-glass-based optical fibres; picosecond optical nonlinearity; response times; semiconductor crystallites;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870295
