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Investigation of bistable switching in linear tapered nonlinear Bragg gratings

JIAN-FENG TIAN1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, Taiyuan Normal University, Taiyuan 030031, China

Abstract

Based on the coupled mode theory, by using the time-domain transfer matrix method, the bistable performance and dynamic switching characteristics of linear tapered nonlinear Bragg gratings (LT-NLBG) are analyzed numerically. We consider both the positive and negative tapered case and compare their performance as a nonlinear switch. The results show that, With the quasi-continuous wave taken into consideration, for the various tapered factors, the temporal characteristics exists with significant difference, including output self-pulsation amplitude, time delay and pulse-width, etc.; As a short pulse switching device, the positive tapered gratings display much less splitting, an indication that modulation instability is not playing a significant role, and the transmitted pulse is much more intense than that in the negative tapered case..

Keywords

Bragg gratings, Linear tapered, Bistable switching.

Citation

JIAN-FENG TIAN, Investigation of bistable switching in linear tapered nonlinear Bragg gratings, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 8, 5-6, May-June 2014, pp.418-422 (2014).

Submitted at: July 7, 2013

Accepted at: May 15, 2014