Design and fabrication of silicon photonic crystal optical waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1402-1411

  Lončar, Marko ^a   Doll, Theodor ^b   Vučković, Jelena ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONS; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0242499635     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.887192     Document Type: Article

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