Analysis of tunable photonic crystal devices comprising liquid crystal materials as defects

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 657-665

  Kosmidou, Elissavet P ^a   Kriezis, Emmanouil E ^a   Tsiboukis, Theodoros D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Defect modes; FDTD; Liquid crystals; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DEFECT MODES; FINITE DIFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 19344363428     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.845925     Document Type: Article

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