Local probing of Bloch mode dispersion in a photonic crystal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4457-4464

  Engelen, Rob J P ^a   Karle, Tim J ^b   Gersen, Henkjan ^a,c   Korterik, Jeroen P ^a   Krauss, Thomas F ^b   Kuipers, Laurens ^a,d   Van Hulst, Nick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; RADIATION; REFLECTION;

BLOCH MODE DISPERSION; BLOCH WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING MICROSCOPY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22744458004     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004457     Document Type: Article

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