Dependence of threshold switching power on the control-light wavelength in a nonlinear distributed-feedback GaInAsP waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6042-6048

  Jeong, Seok Hwan ^a   Nakatsuhara, Katsumi ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Ma, Byong Jin ^b   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL BISTABLE SWITCHING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0009955251     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006042     Document Type: Article

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