On-chip waveguide isolator based on bismuth iron garnet operating via nonreciprocal single-mode cutoff

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9276-9281

  Drezdzon, Samuel M ^a   Yoshie, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; GARNETS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

3D FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; BISMUTH IRON GARNET; DIELECTRIC LAYER; ISOLATION RATIO; MOMENTUM SPACES; OPTICAL ISOLATORS; PERMITTIVITY TENSORS; PERTURBATION THEORY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

BISMUTH; IRON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BISMUTH; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IRON; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 66449136303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009276     Document Type: Article

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