• DocumentCode
    2236003
  • Title

    Suppression and control over the decay of a leaky mode through a transverse refractive index gradient

  • Author

    Plotnik, Yonatan ; Peleg, Or ; Moiseyev, Nimrod ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that the decay of leaky modes can be reduced by orders of magnitude, and controlled in a robust fashion, using a transverse refractive index gradient.
  • Keywords
    localised modes; refractive index; decay; leaky mode; transverse refractive index gradient; Indexes; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Robustness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950453