Heterostructure photonic crystals: Theory and applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 34, 2002, Pages 7245-7253

  Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 0036902064     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007245     Document Type: Article

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