All-optical diode with photonic multilayers based on asymmetric light localization

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Jin, Li ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Yang, Mingyang ^a   Xue, Chunhua ^b   He, Miao ^c  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bistability; photodiodes; signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LIGHT LOCALIZATION; NONLINEAR TRANSFER; PHOTONIC MULTILAYERS; RESEARCH RESULTS;

MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

EID: 81755161226     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3558733     Document Type: Article

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