Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 875-882Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.890455
Keywords
fiber Bragg grating (FBG); nonlinear switching; nonlinear wave propagating in periodic media; optical bistability
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In this paper, the numerical studies on opticalbistability phenomena in third-, fifth-, and seventh-order nonlinear periodic media are presented. By cross-phase modulation with strong Gaussian pump, the continuous-wave probe transmission that operates in bistability regime can be permanently switched from low to high and vice versa using the property of the unstable state. While there is only one hysteresis in the third-order nonlinear periodic media, double hysteresis are observed in the nonlinear-transmission characteristics of pi phase-shifted periodic media with third-fifth and third-fifth-seventh-order nonlinearities. In the context of double hysteresis, unique-bistability regime is defined where the high state can be reached as input comes from low to high with fast enough rise time such that, the output rises above the unstable state during its transient. Finally, all-optical transistor operation is shown as a prominent application of optical bistability based on the unstable-state principle.
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