Nonreciprocal polarization conversion in asymmetric magnetooptic waveguide

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1662-1669

  Amemiya, Tomohiro ^a   Abe, Kenji ^a   Tanemura, Takuo ^b   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^a   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetooptic effect; Photonic integrated circuits; Polarization converter; Waveguide optical isolator

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION DEPENDENCE; INGAASP; INP; MAGNETOOPTIC EFFECTS; NONRECIPROCAL; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION CONVERTER; POLARIZATION CONVERTERS;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE ISOLATORS; POLARIZATION; WAFER BONDING; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77956524622     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2058093     Document Type: Article

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