Modeling study of nonreciprocal phase shift in magnetooptic asymmetric slot waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 656-660

  Tervonen, A ^a   Khanna, Amit ^a   Saynatjoki, Antti ^a   Honkanen, Seppo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; magnetooptic devices; optical isolators; optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; ASYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; MAGNETO-OPTIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOOPTIC DEVICES; MODELING STUDIES; NONRECIPROCAL PHASE SHIFT; OPTICAL ISOLATORS; QUASI-TE; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE; SI PHOTONICS; SILICON-BASED; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; VERTICAL-SLOT; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONICS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79952053123     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2107032     Document Type: Article

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