High-efficiency coupling structure for a single-line-defect photonic-crystal waveguide

Optics Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 1601-1603

  Prather, Dennis W ^a   Murakowski, Janusz ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Venkataraman, Sriram ^a   Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Pustai, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTALS; FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037106696     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.27.001601     Document Type: Article

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