Demonstration of an optical isolator by use of a nonreciprocal phase shift

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 36, 1999, Pages 7409-7413

  Yokoi, Hideki ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Takano, Tomoaki ^a,b   Shinjo, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KDDI CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 0000626414     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.007409     Document Type: Article

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