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Soliton switching in fiber nonlinear directional couplers

S. Trillo, E. M. Wright, G. I. Stegeman, S. Wabnitz

Optics Letters · 1988 · 309 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

We predict all-optical switching of solitons between the two linear modes of a nonlinear coherent coupler made from a dual-core fiber operating in the anomalous dispersion regime.

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