Ultrafast Dual Path Optical Kerr Demultiplexer Utilizing a Polarization Rotating Mirror,

Abstract

All-optical signal processing attracts much attention to overcome the speed limitations imposed by the electrical circuits. An all-optical switching scheme using intensity-dependent refractive index in Kerr media, especially optical fibers, is one of the promising candidates for processing incoming densely time-multiplexed signals, namely optical demultiplexing, optical routing, and logic operations. To date, many excellent works on polarization switching, Mach-Zehnder or Sagnac interferometer switching have been presented for realizing the above functions.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1992
Accession Number
ADP007622

Entities

People

  • H. Takara
  • M. Saruwatari
  • T. Morioka

Organizations

  • NTT, Inc.

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuits
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Fibers
  • Intensity
  • Interferometers
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Switching
  • Polarization
  • Refractive Index
  • Signal Processing
  • Switching
  • United Kingdom
  • Wave Phenomena

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.