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Optics

Michigan Technological University

2013

Integrated Optics

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Nonlinear Effects In Magnetic Garnet Films And Nonreciprocal Optical Bloch Oscillations In Waveguide Arrays, Pradeep Kumar Jan 2013

Nonlinear Effects In Magnetic Garnet Films And Nonreciprocal Optical Bloch Oscillations In Waveguide Arrays, Pradeep Kumar

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This dissertation presents detailed experimental and theoretical investigations of nonlinear and nonreciprocal effects in magnetic garnet films. The dissertation thus comprises two major sections. The first section concentrates on the study of a new class of nonlinear magneto-optic thin film materials possessing strong higher order magnetic susceptibility for nonlinear optical applications. The focus was on enlarging the nonlinear performance of ferrite garnet films by strain generation and compositional gradients in the sputter-deposition growth of these films. Under this project several bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet (Bi,Y) 3 (Fe,Ga)5 O12(acronym as Bi:YIG) films have been sputter-deposited over gadolinium gallium …