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Nonlinear dual core couplers acting as switches and amplifiers can theoretically operate at arbitrarily low input power provided the device is sufficiently long. Two radically different strategies exist: one with touching cores and a device length many periods long and the other with cores well separated and a device length one or two periods long. We find that the many-period scheme is several times longer than the few-period scheme for switches and orders of magnitude longer for large amplification.
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Snyder, A.W., Rowland, D.R. Low power fibre coupler devices: few- versus many-period operation. Opt Quant Electron 24, 31–40 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01234276
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