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Optical bistability in axially modulated OmniGuide fibers
Marin Soljacić1, Mihai Ibanescu, Steven G Johnson
1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. marin@alum.mit.edu
Optics Letters
|April 17, 2003
Abstract:
We demonstrate the feasibility of optical bistability in an axially modulated nonlinear OmniGuide fiber through analytical theory and detailed numerical experiments. At 1.55-microm carrier wavelength, the in-fiber devices that we propose can operate with only a few tens of milliwatts of power, can have a nearly instantaneous response and recovery time, and can be shorter than 100 microm.

