Photonic bandgap with an index step of one percent

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 309-314

  Argyros, A ^b   Birks, T A ^a   Leon Saval, S G ^a   Cordeiro, C M B ^a   Luan, F ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a Department of Physics University of Bath ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FIBERS; GLASS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

AXIAL DIRECTIONS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEVECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 13544254533     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000309     Document Type: Article

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