Directionally dependent confinement in photonic-crystal microcavities

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2043-2051

  Smith, Christopher J M ^a   Krauss, Thomas F ^a   Benisty, Henri ^b   Rattier, Maxime ^b   Weisbuch, Claude ^b   Oesterle, Ursula ^c   Houdré, Romuald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ETCHING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MICROCAVITIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0034549261     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.002043     Document Type: Article

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