Phase-insensitive, single wavelength, all-optical transistor based on second order nonlinearities

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1135-1136

  Wang, Z ^a   Hagan, D J ^a   Van Stryland, E W ^a   Assanto, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; GEOMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

ALL OPTICAL TRANSISTOR; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION; SECOND ORDER NONLINEARITIES; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0030572290     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960725     Document Type: Article

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