Undesirable SPM (self-phase modulation) and XPM (cross-phase modulation) between counter-propagating lights in NOLMs (nonlinear optical loop mirror) are investigated. A solution to overcome these impairments is also proposed and experimentally validated.


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    Title :

    Investigation and solution for undesirable counter-propagating effects in nonlinear optical loop mirrors


    Contributors:
    Scaffardi, M. (author) / Ghelfi, P. (author) / Bogoni, A. (author) / Poti, L. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


    Size :

    121925 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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