Highly compact asymmetric Mach-Zehnder device based on channel guides in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6507-6510

  Camargo, Edilson A ^a   Chong, Harold M H ^b   De La Rue, Richard M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; MACH-ZEHNDER (M-Z) DEVICES; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR MATERIALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33750355965     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006507     Document Type: Article

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