Broadband circulators based on directional coupling of one-way waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22248-22257

  Qiu, Wenjun ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH;

BROADBAND OPERATION; DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; DIRECTIONAL WAVEGUIDES; EDGE STATE; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL CIRCULATOR; QUALITY FACTORS; SMALL DEVICES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 80054915974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022248     Document Type: Article

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