Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Abstract

Nonlinear interactions in fibers, primarily for applications to all- optical switching devices, have been investigated. (1) The theory of all-optical switching with gain in erbium-doped dual core fibers has been developed. (2) Several and various experiments were performed in nonlinear fiber rocking filters. (3) A femtosecond infrared (1650 nm) source has been built. (4) An APM color center laser (300 fsec - 1 psec pulse width) has been constructed (5) A new mechanism for soliton compression has been demonstrated. (6) A dual frequency, cw color center laser has been constructed. (7) The periodic evolution into dark solitons of a pulsed two color source has been demonstrated. (8) Photoinduced gratings in Ge doped sol-gel films have been demonstrated. (9) Nonlinear fiber-optic experiments in tapered fibers have been attempted.... Nonlinear fiber optics, All-optical switching, Nonlinear properties of fibers and glasses, Switching with gain, Erbium doped dual core fibers, Soliton switching, Soliton interactions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 08, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259363

Entities

People

  • George Stegeman

Organizations

  • University of Central Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Color Centers
  • Dye Lasers
  • Fiber Optics
  • Fibers
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Group Velocity
  • Lasers
  • Logic Gates
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optical Properties
  • Optical Switching
  • Optics
  • Switching

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy