Taming the flow of light via active magneto-optical impurities

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26200-26207

  Ramezani, Hamidreza ^a   Lin, Zin ^a   Kalish, Samuel ^a   Kottos, Tsampikos ^a   Kovanis, Vassilios ^b   Vitebskiy, Ilya ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CHIP-SCALE; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODES; IN-PLANE ANISOTROPY; MAGNETO-OPTICAL; OPTICAL ISOLATORS; OPTICALLY ACTIVE;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84870577418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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