Novel designs for integrating YIG/air photonic crystal slab polarizers with waveguide Faraday rotators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-129

  Mondal, Samir K ^a   Stadler, Bethanie J H ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optical isolator; Magnetooptic material; Photonic bandgap; Photonic crystal (PC)

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED OPTICAL ISOLATOR; MAGNETOOPTIC MATERIALS; PARTIAL WAVE ANALYSIS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC); SLAB POLARIZER; WAVEGUIDE FARADAY ROTATORS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 12344323670     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.838156     Document Type: Article

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