Tunable photonic-crystal waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer achieved by nematic liquid-crystal phase modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2616-2624

  Liu, Chen Yang ^a   Chen, Lien Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MULTIPLEXING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLERS, SWITCHES, AND MULTIPLEXERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 4644245155     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002616     Document Type: Article

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