Graphene-controlled fiber Bragg grating and enabled optical bistability

Xuetao Gan, Yadong Wang, Fanlu Zhang, Chenyang Zhao, Biqiang Jiang, Liang Fang, Dongying Li, Hao Wu, Zhaoyu Ren, Jianlin Zhao

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Abstract

We report a graphene-assisted all-optical control of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which enables in-fiber optical bistability and switching. With an optical pump, a micro-FBG wrapped by graphene evolves into chirped and phase-shifted FBGs, whose characteristic wavelengths and bandwidths could be controlled by the pump power. Optical bistability and multistability are achieved in the controlled FBG based on a shifted Bragg reflection or Fabry-Perot-type resonance, which allow the implementation of optical switching with an extinction ratio exceeding 20 dB and a response time in tens of milliseconds.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)603-606
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume41
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2016

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