Real-space observation of ultraslow light in photonlc crystal waveguides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 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

CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; REAL-SPACE OBSERVATIONS; SELECTIVE RETARADATION; ULTRASLOW LIGHT;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISPERSION (WAVES); PHOTONS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDES;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 18244378261     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.073903     Document Type: Article

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