Design of semiconductor-waveguide-type optical isolators using the nonreciprocal loss/gain in the magneto-optical waveguides having MnAs nanoclusters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 27, 2002, Pages 5246-5248

  Shimizu, H ^a   Tanaka, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

OPTICAL ISOLATORS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0346106075     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1533114     Document Type: Article

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