Integrated Mach-Zehnder-based 2 × 2 all-optical switch using nonlinear two-mode interference waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 632-638

  Ghayour, Rahim ^a   Taheri, Ahmad Naseri ^a   Fathi, Mohammad Taghi ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; TWO MODE INTERFERENCE WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 42549167610     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000632     Document Type: Article

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