Analysis of power-dependent switching between radiatively coupled planar waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 983-989

  Shamonin, Mikhail ^a,b,c   Lohmeyer, Manfred ^a   Hertel, Peter ^a,d,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Nonlinear directional coupler; Power dependent switch; Radiatively coupled waveguides

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RADIATION; SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLER (NLDC); POWER DEPENDENT SWITCHING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031162272     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.588671     Document Type: Article

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