Self-guiding multimode interference threshold switch

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 1717-1719

  Rodgers, J Scott ^a   Ralph, Stephen E ^a   Kenan, Richard P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI);

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0042686191     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001717     Document Type: Article

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