S. Radic et al., THEORY OF LOW-THRESHOLD OPTICAL SWITCHING IN NONLINEAR PHASE-SHIFTED PERIODIC STRUCTURES, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 12(4), 1995, pp. 671-680
The theory of phase-shifted nonlinear periodic structures operating in
the stationary regime is presented. The transmissive properties of th
e structure are analyzed by solution of the corresponding set of nonli
near coupled-mode equations exactly. Extremely low switching intensiti
es are found for the special case of lambda/4-shifted structures. An a
ll-optical low-intensity switching configuration that uses a wavelengt
h-tunable source and a lambda/4-shifted nonlinear structure is propose
d. Advantages of the phase-shifted distributed-feedback design in all-
optical switching applications are discussed.