All-optical switching in novel waveguide x-junctions with localized nonlinearity

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E82-C, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-326

  Murata, Hiroshi ^a   Izutsu, Masayuki ^b   Sueta, Tadasi ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Beam propagation method; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguide; Waveguide junction

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

ABSORPTION EDGE; ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; MULTI QUANTUM WELL; NONLINEAR MODE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033313417     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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