Near-field visualization of light confinement in a photonic crystal microresonator

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-176

  Kramper, Patrick ^a   Kafesaki, Maria ^b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b,c   Birner, Albert ^d   Müller, Frank ^e   Gösele, Ulrich ^e   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^f   Mlynek, Jürgen ^g   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^h  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT CONFINEMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICRORESONATOR; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0346007930     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000174     Document Type: Article

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