Dynamic cross-waveguide optical switching with a nonlinear photonic band-gap structure

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-34

  Scholz, Stefan ^a,b   Hess, Ortwin ^a   Rühle, Roland ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; DIELECTRIC SCATTERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMP PULSE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0002174864     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000028     Document Type: Article

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