Optical switching in nonlinear chiral distributed Bragg reflectors with defect layers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 630-639

  Gilles, L ^a   Tran, P ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; THIN FILM DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CHIRAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0038330811     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000630     Document Type: Article

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