OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTINCTION RATIO IN A SELF-SWITCHING SLAB WAVE-GUIDE

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作者
DEANGELIS, C
NALESSO, GF
SOMEDA, CG
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[1] Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Universita’ di Padova, Padova, 35131
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10.1364/JOSAB.10.001581
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Planar nonlinear waveguides consisting of a linear substrate, a linear film, and a Kerr-type cladding, end-fire excited by the TE0 mode of a planar linear waveguide, are studied both numerically and analytically. We show that slab nonlinear waveguides have two different switching modes. The modes depend critically on the normalized wave number; the range of wave numbers that yields the maximum extinction ratio is determined.
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页码:1581 / 1584
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