All-optical switching in a distributed-feedback GaInAsP waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3911-3916

  Nakatsuhara, Katsumi ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Takahashi, Eiji ^a   Hossain, Sainul ^a   Saka, Yoshikazu ^a   Ma, Byong Jin ^b   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032607472     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003911     Document Type: Article

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