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Controlling Light by Light with an Optical Event Horizon

2011; American Physical Society; Volume: 106; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.106.163901

1092-0145

Ayhan Demircan, Shalva Amiranashvili, Günter Steinmeyer,

Optical Network Technologies

A novel concept for an all-optical transistor is proposed and verified numerically. This concept relies on cross-phase modulation between a signal and a control pulse. Other than previous approaches, the interaction length is extended by temporally locking control and the signal pulse in an optical event horizon, enabling continuous modification of the central wavelength, energy, and duration of a signal pulse by an up to sevenfold weaker control pulse. Moreover, if the signal pulse is a soliton it may maintain its solitonic properties during the switching process. The proposed all-optical switching concept fulfills all criteria for a useful optical transistor in [Nat. Photon. 4, 3 (2010)], in particular, fan-out and cascadability, which have previously proven as the most difficult to meet.