Resonantly enhanced nonlinearaties in rare-earth-doped fibers and waveguides

John W. Arkwright; Graham R. Atkins; John Canning; Pak Lim Chu; Mark Janos; Mark G. Sceats; Bin Wu

doi:10.1117/12.258969

20 November 1996 Resonantly enhanced nonlinearaties in rare-earth-doped fibers and waveguides

John W. Arkwright, Graham R. Atkins, John Canning, Pak Lim Chu, Mark Janos, Mark G. Sceats, Bin Wu

Proceedings Volume 2841, Doped Fiber Devices; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258969
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The use of rare-earth dopants for all-optical switching is of interest because of the very low pump powers required to achieve full switching. In addition, the ease with which rare-earth ions can be incorporated into silica based fibers and waveguides makes them ideally suited for the fabrication of fiber compatible components. The principal disadvantages of this type of nonlinearity are that the relaxation times are characteristically slow, and relatively long interaction lengths are required to achieve phase changes of the order of (pi) . In this presentation, an overview of the work being carried out in Australia will be given, concentrating on the techniques developed to minimize the relaxation times and power length products of these nonlinearities.

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John W. Arkwright, Graham R. Atkins, John Canning, Pak Lim Chu, Mark Janos, Mark G. Sceats, and Bin Wu "Resonantly enhanced nonlinearaties in rare-earth-doped fibers and waveguides", Proc. SPIE 2841, Doped Fiber Devices, (20 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258969

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