Title :
All-optical transistor using an optical event horizon
Author :
Bethge, J. ; Bree, C. ; Amiranashvili, Sh. ; Noack, F. ; Steinmeyer, G. ; Demircan, A.
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. (MBI), Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We show by experiment that scattering of an optical pulse at an optical event horizon provides an unprecedented potential for controlling the properties of a light pulse with another light pulse. Most importantly, with proper parameter selection, a strong pulse can be switched by a 7 times less energetic pulse, which clearly sets our method apart from almost any other previously proposed optical transistor. Moreover, while a gate pulse may experience serious reshaping effects in the normal dispersion regime, a suitably chosen soliton does not dispersively spread or break up into multiple pulses, such that the solitonic switching scheme is cascadable.
Keywords :
holey fibres; light scattering; optical elements; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; optical switches; photonic crystals; all-optical transistor; gate pulse; light pulse; normal optical dispersion; optical event horizon; optical pulse scattering; reshaping effects; solitonic switching;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942883