Designing coupled-resonator optical waveguide delay lines

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1665-1673

  Poon, Joyce K S ^a   Scheuer, Jacob ^a   Xu, Yong ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLED RESONATOR; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEFECT; RING RESONATORS; TIGHT BINDING ANALYSIS; TOROID RESONATORS; TRANSFER MATRIX ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 10044225785     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001665     Document Type: Article

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