All-optical switching and beam steering in tunable waveguide arrays

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a,b   Assanto, Gaetano ^a,b   Brzdkiewicz, Kasia A ^b   Karpierz, Mirek A ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SWITCHING;

BEAM STEERING; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 18644378399     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1857071     Document Type: Article

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