Methods for controlling positions of guided modes of photonic-crystal waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1362-1368

  Lončar, Marko ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY GAP; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0141454833     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001362     Document Type: Article

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