Tunable photonic crystals fabricated in III-V semiconductor slab waveguides using infiltrated liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2767-2769

  Schuller, Ch ^a   Klopf, F ^a   Reithmaier, J P ^a   Kamp, M ^a   Forchel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; INFILTRATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC);

PHOTONS;

EID: 0038636149     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1570921     Document Type: Article

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