Symmetric Mach-Zehnder all-optical device

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1994-07-01

1996-07-09

Gonzalez, Frank

Optics: measuring and testing

By particle light scattering

With photocell detection

385 12, G01B 902

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055350011

ABSTRACT:
The Mach-Zehnder type all-optical device for controlling a signal light with a control light, includes two arms for constituting a Mach-Zehnder configuration, each of the arms being constituted at least partially of material having third order optical nonlinearity, and an introducer of a control light to a portion of each of the arms revealing the optical nonlinearity.

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High-speed all-optical switching experiment in Mach-Zehnder configuration using GaAs waveguide; Appl. Phys. Lett. 62 (9), 1 Mar. 1993, pp. 925-927; S. Nakamura, et al.
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