A QUANTUM-MECHANICAL STUDY OF OPTICAL REGENERATORS BASED ON NONLINEAR-LOOP MIRRORS

Authors
DARIANO GM KUMAR P
Citation
Gm. Dariano et P. Kumar, A QUANTUM-MECHANICAL STUDY OF OPTICAL REGENERATORS BASED ON NONLINEAR-LOOP MIRRORS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(5), 1998, pp. 699-701
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
10
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
699 - 701
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:5<699:AQSOOR>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We present a quantum-mechanical analysis of a nonlinear interferometer that achieves optical switching via cross-phase modulation (XPM) resu lting from the Kerr effect. We show how it performs as a very precise optical regenerator, highly improving the transmitted bit-error rate ( BER) in the presence of loss.