Four-port coupled channel-guide device based on 2D photonic crystal structure

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-213

  Camargo, Edilson A ^a,b   Chong, Harold M H ^a   De La Rue, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Couplers; Four port devices; Mode conversion; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; INFRARED DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE SHIFT; RADIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLERS; FOUR-PORT DEVICES; MODE CONVERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 10444231242     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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