Title :
Fiber optical devices using a gigantic Faraday rotation in nanometric region
Author :
Kawazoe, Tadashi ; Maruyama, Shinga ; Ohtsu, Motoichi
Author_Institution :
Interdisciplinary Graduate Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a novel fiber device using a gigantic Faraday rotation in sharpened optical fiber. The rotation angle of this reaches as much as 105 degrees in spite of the sub-wavelength size of the device.
Keywords :
Faraday effect; magneto-optical devices; optical fibres; surface plasmons; fiber optical devices; gigantic Faraday rotation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
