Abstract
A numerical study of the all-optical switching properties of solitons in an erbium-doped nonlinear fiber coupler is presented. The small gain provided by the erbium both lowers and sharpens the switching threshold, while producing pulse-compression factors of 3 to 9. As a result, we show that it is possible to achieve all-optical switching, amplification, and compression of short pulses in a single device.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1653-1655 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics letters |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 1991 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics