Title :
A nonlinear device for optical dragging with compensation of the initial phase difference
Author :
Chiaraluce, Franco ; Gambi, Ennio ; Pierleoni, Paola
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Autom., Ancona Univ., Italy
Abstract :
A new all-optical logic gate based on the interaction between two spatial solitons collinearly launched in a Kerr-like nonlinear medium is presented. The proposed interaction geometry provides a phase-insensitive three-terminal device
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical information processing; optical logic; optical solitons; Kerr-like nonlinear medium; all-optical logic gate; collinear launching; initial phase difference compensation; interaction geometry; optical dragging; optical signal processing; phase diversity operation; phase-insensitive three-terminal device; spatial soliton interaction; Logic gates; Magnetic materials; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Electrotechnical Conference, 1996. MELECON '96., 8th Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Bari
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3109-5
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.1996.551234
