Terahertz repetition rate optical computing systems, and communication systems and logic elements using cross-phase modulation based optical processors
US5373381A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 12, 1991 |
| Grant date | Dec 13, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 12, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02F1/3511
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Optical communication systems, optical computing systems and optical logic elements which rely on the phenomina of cross-phase modulation to alter and control, either or simultaneously, the spectral, temporal or/and spatial properties of ultrashort light pulses for processing information with high speed repetition rates. A weak beam of ultrashort light pulses is modulated by an intense beam of ultrashort light pulses by copropagating both beams through a non-linear medium such that cross-phase modulation effects are realized.
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