On the design of photonic crystal multiplexers

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 566-571

  Smajic, Jasmin ^a   Hafner, Christian ^a   Erni, Daniel ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MODAL FIELDS; MULTIPLE MULTIPOLE METHOD (MMP); MULTIPLEXERS; OPTICAL BAND GAPS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 1942486678     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000566     Document Type: Article

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