Photonic crystal heterostructures - Resonant tunnelling, waveguides and filters

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Istrate, E ^a   Sargent, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Envelope approximation; Heterostructures; K dot P theory; Photonic bandgap materials; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY GAP; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ENVELOPE APPROXIMATION; LATTCIE GEOMETRY; PHOTONIC BANDGAP MATERIAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL HETEROSTRUCTURE;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0036862637     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/4/6/360     Document Type: Article

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