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Terahertz repetition rate optical computing systems, and communication systems and logic elements using cross-phase modulation based optical processors

US5463485A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 15, 1994
Grant dateOct 31, 1995
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 15, 2014

Classification

  • 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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