All-optical ultracompact photonic crystal AND gate based on nonlinear ring resonators

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-16

  Andalib, Parisa ^a   Granpayeh, Nosrat ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RESONATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALL OPTICAL; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR RING RESONATORS; PARALLEL LINE; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; SI NANOCRYSTAL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 59949085393     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000010     Document Type: Article

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