OPTICALLY TUNABLE ADIABATIC BEAM SPLITTER

被引:4
作者
SNYDER, AW
POLADIAN, L
MITCHELL, DJ
机构
[1] Optical Sciences Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
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10.1364/OL.17.000118
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that a twin-core coupler that is composed of nonlinear material with gain behaves like a tapered (linear) coupler and also has a beam-splitting ratio that is optically tunable. This conceptual approach reveals a new class of twin-core all-optical devices that exchange power adiabatically between the cores rather than by the more familiar method of resonance coupling or phase matching.
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页码:118 / 120
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