Realization of an all-optical triode and diode with a two-level-atom-loaded diffraction grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8547-8556

  Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical diode; Optical triode; Scattering from gratings; Ultrafast phenomena

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRIODES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATION; OPTICAL DIODE; OPTICAL TRIODE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0031276825     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008547     Document Type: Article

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