Low Optical Loss Connection for Photonic Crystal Slab Waveguides

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 328-335

  Gomyo, Akiko ^a   Ushida, Jun ^a,b   Shirane, Masayuki ^a   Tokushima, Masatoshi ^a   Yamada, Hirohito ^a,b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Optoelec Indust/Technol Devmt A   (Japan)

Author keywords

Admittance; Immittance of EM Bloch waves; Impedance; Photonic crystal slab; Reflection; Transmission; Trapezoidal interface structure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC ADMITTANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

IMMITTANCE OF EM BLOCH WAVES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLABS; TRAPEZOIDAL INTERFACE STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1642384032     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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