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

fYear

1994

fDate

25-29 Jul 1994

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

308

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1473-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1994.470798

Filename

470798