Momentum space design of high-Q photonic crystal optical cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 670-684

  Srinivasan, Kartik ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MOMENTUM SPACE DESIGN; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0038681438     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000670     Document Type: Article

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