Quadratic electro-optic Kerr effect: Applications to photonic devices

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 740-746

  Qasymeh, Montasir ^a   Cada, Michael ^a   Ponomarenko, Sergey A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated opto electronics; Nanocrystals; Optical nonlinearities; Photonic devices

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; COMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DEVICE INTEGRATIONS; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ELECTRO OPTICS; ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECTS; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INTEGRATED OPTO-ELECTRONICS; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; ISOTROPIC MEDIUMS; KERR EFFECTS; KEY FEATURES; LINEAR ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECTS; MULTI STABLES; NON-LINEAR MATERIALS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL CRYSTALS; OPTICAL LIMITERS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; THIRD ORDER NON LINEARITIES; THIRD ORDERS; TUNABLE OPERATIONS; VARIABLE ATTENUATORS;

APPLICATIONS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 65349139027     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.924430     Document Type: Article

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