Hybrid optical circulator using Garnet-Quartz composite embedded in planar waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2269-2271

  Hanashima, Naoki ^a   Hata, Kenjiro ^a   Mochida, Reio ^a   Oikawa, Toru ^a   Kineri, Tohru ^b   Satoh, Yoshinori ^a   Iwatsuka, Shinji ^a  

^a TDK CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; FARADAY EFFECT; GARNETS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUARTZ; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

DIFFRACTION LOSS; GARNET-QUARTZ COMPOSITE (GQC); HYBRID OPTICAL CIRCULATOR; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; PASSIVE WAVEGUIDE; PHOTONIC HYBRID INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICA WAVEGUIDE;

WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS;

EID: 5444239754     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831561     Document Type: Article

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