Two-dimensional photonic-crystal-slab channel-drop filter with flat-top response

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2512-2530

  Akahane, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Asano, Takashi ^a   Takano, Hitomichi ^c   Song, Bong Shik ^a   Takana, Yoshinori ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 21244443061     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002512     Document Type: Article

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