Low-loss guided modes in photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4939-4951

  Gerace, Dario ^a   Andreani, Lucio Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ETCHING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

CRYSTAL SLABS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROPAGATION LOSSES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22744452655     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004939     Document Type: Article

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