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Instabilities and all‐optical phase‐controlled switching in a nonlinear directional coherent coupler

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In this paper, the instability in the evolution of a nonlinear wave along a directional coupler is investigated with the beam propagation method, both for self focusing and for self-defocusing materials.
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The instability in the evolution of a nonlinear wave along a directional coupler is investigated with the beam propagation method, both for self‐focusing and for self‐defocusing materials. A new device is proposed for switching an intense light beam at the device output by changing the relative phase of a weak input signal.

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