Grating-mediated waveguiding

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Cohen, Oren ^a   Freedman, Barak ^a   Fleischer, Jason W ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

BRAGG DIFFRACTIONS; GRATING MEDIATED WAVEGUIDING (GMW); TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR); WAVE VECTORS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 19544362536     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.103902     Document Type: Article

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