Control of critical coupling in a ring resonator-fiber configuration: Application to wavelength-selective switching, modulation, amplification, and oscillation

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 1236-1238

  Choi, John M ^a   Lee, Reginald K ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RING RESONATORS;

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0000178549     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001236     Document Type: Article

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