2R-regenerative all-optical switch based on a highly nonlinear holey fiber

Authors
Petropoulos, P Monro, TM Belardi, W Furusawa, K Lee, JH Richardson, DJ
Citation
P. Petropoulos et al., 2R-regenerative all-optical switch based on a highly nonlinear holey fiber, OPTICS LETT, 26(16), 2001, pp. 1233-1235
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01469592 → ACNP
Volume
26
Issue
16
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1233 - 1235
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(20010815)26:16<1233:2ASBOA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We report the fabrication of a highly nonlinear holey fiber made from pure silica with an effective area of just similar to2.8 mum(2) at 1550 run. We believe this to be the smallest effective area yet measured for a holey fib er at 1550 nm. We also report the operation of a 2R regenerative optical sw itch based on just 3.3 m of the fiber that is shown to have 30 times the no nlinear figure of merit of previous devices based on dispersion-shifted fib er. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.