title: Experimental demonstration of optical soliton switching in an all-fiber nonlinear Sagnac interferometer.
abstract: We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, the switching of optical solitons. We observe switching of 93% of the total reflected energy in a partially transmitting integrated fiber loop mirror that makes up the interferometer. This result demonstrates the potential of solitons as the natural bits in ultrafast optical processing.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Blow
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Doran
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Nayar