Abstract
Recent interests in glass optical fiber switching devices have produced a number of different designs such as the birefringent fiber polarization switch, the optical fiber Kerr gate, and the dual core fiber directional coupler, in general, intensity-induced switching generates undesirable side effects like pulse reshaping and breaking which degrade the performance of the device, for example, in a dual core nonlinear coupler, this limits the achievable nonlinear energy transfer at the switching power to ~50%.
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