A highly nonlinear holey fiber and its application in a regenerative optical switch

Abstract

We report the fabrication of a highly nonlinear, polarization-maintaining, silica holey fiber with an effective area of ~2.5μm² at 1550nm. Nonlinear switching is demonstrated in a 3.3m long regenerative switch based on SPM with appropriate band pass filtering.

OFC 2001 Anaheim 17-22 Mar (2001)

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