Nano-photonic crystal waveguides for ultra-compact tunable true time delay lines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5733, Issue , 2005, Pages 166-175

  Jiang, Yong Qiang ^a   Jiang, Wei ^b   Chen, Xiaonan ^a   Gu, Lanlan ^a   Howley, Brie ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Group velocity dispersion (GVD); Optical true time delay (TTD); Phased array antenna (PAA); Photonic crystal waveguide; Slow photon; Wavelength tuning

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEGUIDES;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION (GVD); OPTICAL TUNE TIME DELAY (TTD); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVGEUIDES; SLOW PHOTONS; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 21844477841     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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