MAGNETOOPTIC CHANNEL WAVE-GUIDES IN CE-SUBSTITUTED YTTRIUM-IRON-GARNET

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作者
SHINTAKU, T
UNO, T
KOBAYASHI, M
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[1] NTT Opto-electronics Laboratories, Tokai, Ibaraki-ken
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10.1063/1.354318
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O59 [应用物理学];
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This article describes the demonstration of magneto-optic channel waveguides in Ce-substituted yttrium iron garnet which has a very large Faraday rotation. The rib waveguides are successfully produced by employing a new etching technique, which is a reactive ion etching method using BCl3 gas. The nonreciprocal phase shift in the magneto-optic waveguides is measured by using a new improved measurement method. These waveguides exhibit the largest nonreciprocal phase shift ever reported of 21.1 rad/cm (lambda = 1.55 mum).
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