title: Fast electroholographic switching.
abstract: Electroholographic switching with a rise time of 13 ns is henceforth presented. The switching was demonstrated in a potassium lithium tantalate crystal doped with copper and titanium with Tc=10 degrees C. The crystal was operated at 17 degrees C. The switching operation was done in the g11/g12 configuration, in which the Bragg condition remains fulfilled at all levels of the applied field. As electroholography is a wavelength-selective switching method, this opens the way for implementing optical packet switching and fast wavelength addressing schemes in optical fiber networks that apply wavelength division multiplexing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, The Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. ngem3@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sapiens
authors.forename: Aharon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weissbrod
authors.forename: Aharon J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Agranat