Title :
All-optical signal gating in cascaded LPGs of Ag nanoparticles incorporated germano-silicate optical fiber
Author :
Lin, Aoxiang ; Watekar, Pramod R. ; Liu, Xueming ; Chung, Youngjoo ; Han, Won-Taek
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Buk-gu
Abstract :
All-optical signal gating based on cross-phase modulation was demonstrated in the cascaded LPGs of the optical fiber incorporated with Ag-nanoparticles. 10% modulation depth of a signal at 499 nm was obtained with pump intensity of 1 GW/cm2.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; germanium compounds; optical fibres; optical pumping; phase modulation; silicon compounds; silver; Ag-nanoparticles; GeO-SiO-Ag; all-optical signal gating; cross-phase modulation; germano-silicate optical Fiber; long-period fiber gratings; modulation depth; pump intensity; wavelength 499 nm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Intensity modulation; Nanoparticles; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
Conference_Location :
Sydney
Print_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
DOI :
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610448
