Optical trirefringence in photonic crystal waveguides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1526-1529

  Netti, M C ^c   Harris, A ^c   Baumberg, J J ^c   Whittaker, D M ^a   Charlton, M B D ^b   Zoorob, M E ^b   Parker, G J ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MESOPHOTONIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL TRIREFRINGENCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034830079     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1526     Document Type: Article

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