Weighted distributed feedback structure for all–optical bistable devices

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1507-1511

  Nakatsuhara, Katsumi ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Munakata, Ryuhei ^a   Naito, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical bistable device; Waveguide device

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001435925     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001507     Document Type: Article

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