Nanomagnetic route to bias-magnet-free, on-chip Faraday rotators

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 254-260

  Levy, Miguel ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FARADAY EFFECT; GARNETS; MAGNETIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

FARADAY ROTATORS; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 13344276551     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000254     Document Type: Article

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