Properties of the slab modes in photonic crystal optical waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1554-1564

  Adibi, Ali ^a   Xu, Yong ^b   Lee, Reginald K ^b   Yariv, Amnon ^b   Scherer, Axel ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTION (DBR); PHOTONIC BANDGAP (PBG); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034313851     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.896217     Document Type: Article

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