Direct observation of bloch harmonics and negative phase velocity in photonic crystal waveguides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Gersen, H ^a,e   Karle, T J ^b   Engelen, R J P ^a   Bogaerts, W ^c   Korterik, J P ^a   Van Hulst, N F ^a   Krauss, T F ^b   Kuipers, L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-CLUSTER SYSTEMS; GAMMA TRANSITION; LINEAR CHAIN STATES (LCS); NEUTRON DECAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GAMMA RAYS; GROUND STATE; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RESONANCE;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 18244374455     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.123901     Document Type: Article

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