Low Walk-Off Kerr-Shutter Using a Dispersion-Shifted Lead Silicate Holey Fiber

We present, for the first time to our knowledge, the use of a dispersion-shifted soft-glass holey fiber (HF) in a Kerr-shutter configuration. Wavelength conversion of 10-Gb/s data pulses is achieved in the C-band using just 2.1 m of a lead-silicate HF with a nonlinear parameter ¿ of 164 W
^-1
· km
^-1
. The low dispersion and the short length of the fiber enable short switching windows to be realized.