OPERATION OF A NONLINEAR-OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR WITH ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED WAVES IN NONPOLARIZATION-PRESERVING, SINGLE-MODE FIBER

Authors
BUTLER DL CHO PS CHBAT MW GOLDHAR J CHOA FS BURDGE GL
Citation
Dl. Butler et al., OPERATION OF A NONLINEAR-OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR WITH ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED WAVES IN NONPOLARIZATION-PRESERVING, SINGLE-MODE FIBER, IEEE photonics technology letters, 8(6), 1996, pp. 779-781
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
8
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
779 - 781
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1996)8:6<779:OOANLM>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We demonstrate stable operation of a NOLM using orthogonally polarized control and signal beams in nonpolarization-preserving, single-mode f iber, The NOLM can transcribe data from an optically incoherent input at one wavelength to a coherent output over a range of wavelengths, Op eration of the NOLM without tuning for the input bit rate is possible over a range of bit rates from less than 1 Gb/s to more than 50 Gb/s.