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Journal of Physics D Applied Physics

Photonic demultiplexer based on electromagnetically induced transparency resonances

Abdelkader Mouadili, El Houssaine El Boudouti, Ali Soltani, Abdelkrim Talbi, Kamel Haddadi, Abdellatif Akjouj, Bahram Djafari‐Rouhani

Published Nov 15, 2018• 23 citations
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Abstract

Abstract We give an analytical and experimental demonstration of the possibility to realize a simple photonic demultiplexer based on electromagnetically induced transparency resonances. The demultiplexer consists of a Y-shaped waveguide with an input line and two output lines. Each output line contains two grafted stubs at a given position far from the input line. We derive in closed form the expressions for a selective transfer of a single propagating mode through one line keeping the other line unaffected. We illustrate the analytical and numerical results by a simple experiment carried out using coaxial cables in the radio frequency domain.

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10.1088/1361-6463/aaf11b

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