Patent
1976-03-15
1977-06-28
Corbin, John K.
350151, G02B 514
Patent
active
040322165
ABSTRACT:
Mode conversion of optical signals in thin film optical devices is obtained in a region of Faraday effect magnetic material waveguide by providing a periodic structure in which alternate half cycles have the magnetization parallel to the propagation direction to turn on the Faraday effect to induce mode conversion and in which the intervening half cycles have the magnetization perpendicular to the propagation direction to turn off the Faraday effect to prevent mode conversion. Stripe domains are preferably used to turn the Faraday effect off. Non-reciprocal mode conversion is obtained by optically coupling an anisotropic crystal to the waveguide to provide a quantity of mode conversion equal to that provided by the Faraday effect.
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Henry "Thin-Film Optical Magnetic Mode Converters," App. Phys. Letts., vol. 26, No. 7, Apr. 1975, pp. 408-411.
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Corbin John K.
Hamann H. Fredrick
Levy Stewart
Ochis Robert
Rockwell International Corporation
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