GaInAsP-InP distributed feedback waveguides for all-optical switching

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 143-149

  Nakatsuhara, Katsumi ^a   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Hossain, Sainul ^a   Jeong, Seok Hwan ^a   Tsukishima, Yukio ^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

MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK WAVEGUIDES; GALLIUM INDIUM ARSENIC PHOSPHIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033876218     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.826882     Document Type: Article

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