Title

Soliton Switching In An Erbium-Doped Nonlinear Fiber Coupler

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. © 1991 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

11-1-1991

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

16

Issue

21

Number of Pages

1653-1655

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.16.001653

Socpus ID

84975568384 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84975568384

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