Self-collimation in planar photonic crystals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1246-1257

  Witzens, Jeremy ^a   Lončar, Marko ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocollimation; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Planar photonic crystals; Self collimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

BAND DIAGRAMS; BRILLOUIN ZONE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GROUP VELOCITY; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SELF-COLLIMATION; SQUARE SYMMETRY;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0036881283     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.806693     Document Type: Article

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