Two Dimensional Semiconductor-Based Photonic Crystal Slab Waveguides for Ultra-Fast Optical Signal Processing Devices

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-327

  Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Tanaka, Yu ^a   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Kanamoto, Kyozo ^a   Nakamura, Yusui ^a   Ohkouchi, Shunsuke ^a   Nakamura, Hitoshi ^a   Inoue, Kuon ^b   Sasaki, Hidekazu ^b   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^c   Ishida, Koji ^b   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal; Photonic IC; Slab waveguide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALS; DRY ETCHING; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPACITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP (PBG); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC IC; SLAB WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 12144291361     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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