Superprism phenomena in photonic crystals: Toward microscale lightwave circuits

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2032-2038

  Kosaka, Hideo ^a   Kawashima, Takayuki ^b   Tomita, Akihisa ^a   Notomi, Masaya ^c   Tamamura, Toshiaki ^c   Sato, Takashi ^b   Kawakami, Shojiro ^b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WAFERS;

LIGHT DEFLECTORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERPRISM PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0033343691     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.802991     Document Type: Article

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