Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 7, 989(2011)
Optical Switch Based on Optical Loop Mirror with Erbiumdoped Fiber and Microstructure Fiber
A low switchingpower alloptical switch was designed. The erbiumdoped fiber and the microstructure fiber were inserted into the Sagnac loop mirror simultaneously. Under the effect of the pump modulation, signal light was amplified when passing the erbiumdoped fiber. The symmetry of the loop was broken, two counterpropagating signal lights in the loop acquire nonlinear phase due to the crossphase modulation effect, and the light switch was realized. The theoretical analysis shows that while the signal light goes through erbiumdoped, the larger gain it gets, and the higher coefficients of the microstructure fiber is, the lower switch power is. Furthermore, the transmission rate of signal light in the loop varies with the phase difference of the two counterpropagating signal lights into cosine changes. the simulation results shows that switching power is 26.73 mW, which agrees with the theory.
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ZHAO Juan, XU Wenbo, SU Xianxu, LI Wei, YANG Qing, CHEN Ming. Optical Switch Based on Optical Loop Mirror with Erbiumdoped Fiber and Microstructure Fiber[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2011, 40(7): 989
Received: Dec. 31, 2010
Accepted: --
Published Online: Aug. 10, 2011
The Author Email: Juan ZHAO (yutouzj@163.com)