Engineering photonic crystal impurity bands for waveguides, all-optical switches and optical delay lines

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E85-C, Issue 1 SPEC., 2002, Pages 181-189

  Lan, Sheng ^a   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Wada, Osamu ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switches; Coupled cavity waveguides; Defects and impurity bands; Optical delay lines; Photonic band gap

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUNING;

OPTICAL DELAY LINES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036454703     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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