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    Magneto optical rib waveguide with low refractive index

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    The phase matching condition is an important requirement for magneto-optical waveguide devices. In this work, the design rules that must be imposed on the geometry and the index of magneto optical rib waveguides to make them behave as phase matched rib waveguides have been simulated. Using film mode matching method, the results show that operation in phase matching is possible under certain circumstances with selected index and geometries. We simulated the performance of such devices and we determined the waveguide dimensions (height, width, and etching depth) and the index that satisfy the phase matching conditions

    Theoretical study of a nonlinear fast silicon photoconductive switch

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    Silicon-On-Insulator waveguide can be used as photoconductor, the light being coupled in the silicon film by a diffraction grating. Nonlinear effects are induced by the photogeneration of electron-hole pairs. This leads to photocurrent variations which are much faster than in linear regime and also much steeper than the incident light pulse. A model is presented which takes into account the refractive index variations arising from both the excess carrier density and the temperature rise induced by carrier recombination and Joule effect. The photocurrent is calculated for various values of the incident light power, incidence angle and pulse duration
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