Integrated mirror optical switch: resonant semiconductor layer         integrated in a far-infrared coupled waveguide modulator

Johan H. Stiens; Roger A. Vounckx; Alexander I. Voronko; Gennady N. Shkerdin

doi:10.1117/12.147917

28 June 1993 Integrated-mirror optical switch: resonant semiconductor layer integrated in a far-infrared coupled waveguide modulator

Johan H. Stiens, Roger A. Vounckx, Alexander I. Voronko, Gennady N. Shkerdin

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Proceedings Volume 1807, Photonic Switching; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147917
Event: Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, 1992, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

A waveguide modulator for far-infrared light, based on the plasma resonance properties of a high density, thin electron sheet in semiconductors, is proposed. Parallel-coupled (uncoupled) waveguides can be uncoupled (coupled) by the presence of the electron gas.

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Johan H. Stiens, Roger A. Vounckx, Alexander I. Voronko, and Gennady N. Shkerdin "Integrated-mirror optical switch: resonant semiconductor layer integrated in a far-infrared coupled waveguide modulator", Proc. SPIE 1807, Photonic Switching, (28 June 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147917

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