DocumentCode
421534
Title
High speed surface magneto-plasmon reflectivity modulator
Author
Chau, K.J. ; Irvine, Scott E. ; Elezzabi, A.Y.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada
Volume
2
fYear
2004
fDate
16-21 May 2004
Abstract
We propose a magneto-optic (MO) modulator based on surface magneto-plasmons in a rare-earth garnet. The modulator has improved efficiency over MO modulation by bulk propagation, is capable of multi-gigahertz operation, and has a tunable bandwidth.
Keywords
garnets; high-speed optical techniques; magneto-optical modulation; optical tuning; reflectivity; surface plasmons; bulk propagation; high speed modulator; magneto-optic modulator; multigigahertz operation; rare-earth garnet; reflectivity; surface magneto-plasmon; tunable bandwidth;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-777-6
Type
conf
Filename
1360726
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