Single-mode waveguide microcavity for fast optical switching

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2017-2019

  Villeneuve, Pierre R ^a   Abrams, Daniel S ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOIONIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SWITCHING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DEEP DONOR LEVELS; ON-OFF SWITCHING; PHOTON ABSORPTION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECT; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDE MICROCAVITY;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0030387971     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.002017     Document Type: Article

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