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Accession Number:
ADP007613
Title:
All Optical Switching in Optical Fibre Devices,
Corporate Author:
BRITISH TELECOM RESEARCH LABS IPSWICH (UNITED KINGDOM)
Report Date:
1992-05-22
Abstract:
A number of fibre based devices have been shown to be capable of performing all switching. These include, polarisation discriminators, Mach-Zehnder and coherent couplers. The crucial interferometers Sagnac interferometers feature common to these devices is the existence of two modes which can propagate independently in the linear regime. Polarisation based devices and couplers are described by a simple set of coupled equations which can either be in terms of the local modes mode of a single core for the coupler, circular modes for polarisation or the global true modes symmetric and antisymmetric modes of the coupler, linear modes for polarisation. The latter choice exemplifies the connection with the interferometer based devices since the linear coupling operation is described in terms of the beating of the true modes in much the same way as the linear properties of the interferometer are described in terms of the beating between the fields in the two arms.
Supplementary Note:
This article is from 'OSA Proceedings of the Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena Held in 2-4 September 1991. Cambridge, England United Kingdom. Volume 15', AD-A253 471, p338-341.
Pages:
0004
File Size:
0.00MB
