Single-mode Ag-As2Se3 strip-loaded waveguides for applications to all-optical devices

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8634-8641

  Suzuki, Keijiro ^a   Ogusu, Kazuhiko ^a   Minakata, Makoto ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; PHOTOOXIDATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILVER ALLOYS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHOTODOPING; PROPAGATION LOSS; STRIP-LOADED WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84894015961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008634     Document Type: Article

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