Enhanced light amplification due to group-velocity anomaly peculiar to two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 167-176

  Sakoda, Kazuaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

BRILLOUIN ZONES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANE WAVES; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0000243054     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000167     Document Type: Article

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