Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Nonreciprocal acousto-optical effect in planar waveguides

O. E. Nanii

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: The amplitude nonreciprocal effect in planar waveguides during the interaction of waveguide optical modes with a travelling surface acoustic wave was calculated. The possibility of constructing an optical isolator (circulator) by using collinear acousto-optical diffraction with conversion of the type of waveguide mode is demonstrated.

PACS: 42.82.Et, 42.79.Jq

Received: 01.09.1999

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2000, 30:3, 271–273

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