• DocumentCode
    2833269
  • Title

    All-optical ´AND´ gate using gap soliton formation in a fiber Bragg grating

  • Author

    Taverner, D. ; Broderick, N.G.R. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Ibsen, M. ; Lamin, R.I.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    22-27 Feb. 1998
  • Firstpage
    235
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We present, for the first time to our knowledge, an all-optical ´AND´ gate based on a configuration proposed by S. Lee and S.T. Ho. [see Opt. Lett., vol. 18, p. 962, 1993]. The operation of the gate relies on the formation and propagation of coupled gap solitons by two orthogonally polarized high-intensity input beams incident within the bandgap of a fibre Bragg grating (FBG).
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; optical fibres; optical logic; optical solitons; optical switches; all-optical AND gate; coupled gap solitons; fiber Bragg grating; fibre Bragg grating bandgap; gap soliton formation; orthogonally polarized high-intensity input beams; Bragg gratings; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical refraction; Photonic band gap; Polarization; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-521-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1998.657358
  • Filename
    657358