Design of photonic crystal waveguides for evanescent coupling to optical fiber tapers and integration with high-Q cavities

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2274-2284

  Barclay, Paul E ^a   Srinivasan, Kartik ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BANDWIDTH; CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EVANESCENT COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBER TAPERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0242577888     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002274     Document Type: Article

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