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Fast optical switching in Sm/sup 3+/-doped fibers |
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| Authors: | B. Wu P.L. Chu |
| Affiliation: | Sch. of Electr. Eng., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia; |
| Abstract: | We report an experimental investigation of the fast optical switching in a Sm/sup 3+/-doped fiber. We discovered that this fiber can effect a fast switching speed less than 5 ns. However, the required switching power is 472 W with pulsewidth 10 ns. |
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