REDUCTION OF CRITICAL POWER IN ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING WITH SERIES-TAPERED NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLER

Authors
PU GS MIZUMOTO T ITO K HIGASHIDE Y NAITO Y
Citation
Gs. Pu et al., REDUCTION OF CRITICAL POWER IN ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING WITH SERIES-TAPERED NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLER, IEICE transactions on electronics, E78C(9), 1995, pp. 1315-1318
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEICE transactions on electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168524
Volume
E78C
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1315 - 1318
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8524(1995)E78C:9<1315:ROCPIA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A novel series-tapered nonlinear directional coupler is proposed to im prove all-optical switching characteristics. Its switching characteris tics are analyzed by using a beam propagation method based on the Gale rkin's finite element technique. It is presented that the critical pow er of the series-tapered nonlinear directional coupler is smaller than conventional uniform symmetric and tapered nonlinear directional coup lers.