Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6804, 2000, Pages 608-610

  Noda, Susumu ^a   Chutinan, Alongkarn ^a   Imada, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FIBER OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0034609841     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35036532     Document Type: Article

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