Calculation of losses in 2-D photonic crystal membrane waveguides using the 3-D FDTD method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-60

  Cryan, M J ^a   Wong, D C L ^a   Craddock, I J ^a   Yu, S ^a   Rorison, J ^a   Railton, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Photonic crystals (PCs); Two dimensional photonic crystal waveguides (2 D PC WGs)

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; FOURIER EXPANSION METHOD; MEMBRANE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 12344297873     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837914     Document Type: Article

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