A photonic switch based on a gigantic, reversible optical nonlinearity of liquefying gallium

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1787-1789

  Bennett, P J ^a   Dhanjal, S ^a   Petropoulos, P ^a   Richardson, D J ^a   Zheludev, N I ^a   Emelyanov, V I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SILICA; SWITCHING;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC BRAGG CELL; FREQUENCY BAND SPINNING; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; REVERSIBLE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032575824     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122282     Document Type: Article

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