Transmission properties of coupled-cavity waveguides based on two-dimensional photonic crystals with a triangular lattice of air holes

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1922-1926

  Yang, Tao ^a,b   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Lan, Sheng ^a   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Tanaka, Yu ^a   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COUPLED-CAVITY WAVEGUIDES (CCW);

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0141515753     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001922     Document Type: Article

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