• DocumentCode
    1297137
  • Title

    Demonstration of the optical Kerr effect in an all-fibre Mach-Zehnder interferometer at laser diode powers

  • Author

    White, Ian H. ; Penty, Richard V. ; Epworth, R.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ.
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    3/17/1988 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    340
  • Lastpage
    341
  • Abstract
    There has been much interest in using the optical Kerr effect in optical fibres as the basis of operation of all-fibre logic gates. The nonlinear Kerr coefficient of a germania core optical fibre has been determined by measuring the phase shift induced by a laser diode pump on a HeNe probe in an all-fibre Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It has been demonstrated that this device may be operated as an optical tap. A predicted power-length product for 100% modulation of 11 Wm has been obtained
  • Keywords
    fibre optics; light interferometers; logic gates; optical Kerr effect; optical fibres; optical information processing; optical pumping; He-Ne probe; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; SiO2-GeO2 core optical fibre; all-fibre gates; laser diode powers; laser diode pump; nonlinear Kerr coefficient; optical Kerr effect; optical logic gates; optical tap; phase shift measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    8205
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1297137