Extrinsic optical scattering loss in photonic crystal waveguides: Role of fabrication disorder and photon group velocity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Hughes, S ^a   Ramunno, L ^b   Young, Jeff F ^c   Sipe, J E ^d  

^a Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL LOSSES; PHOTON GROUP VELOCITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

BACKSCATTERING; CRYSTALS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 18044375382     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.033903     Document Type: Article

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