Variable gratings for optical switching: Rigorous electromagnetic simulation and design

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 552-557

  Gani, Dan ^a   Auslender, Mark ^a,b   Hava, Shlomo ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Gratings; Optical switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010038921     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602097     Document Type: Article

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