Demonstration of an optical isolator with a semiconductor guiding layer that was obtained by use of a nonreciprocal phase shift

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 6158-6164

  Yokoi, Hideki ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Shinjo, Nobuhiro ^a   Futakuchi, Naoki ^b   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; PHASE SHIFTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

OPTICAL ISOLATERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000969503     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006158     Document Type: Article

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