Photonic bandgap properties of void-based body-centered-cubic photonic crystals in polymer

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4390-4395

  Zhou, Guangyong ^a   Ventura, Michael James ^a   Gu, Min ^a   Mattews, Aaron F ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; MICROSCOPES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; MATERIALS AND PROCESS CHARACTERIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 22744459523     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004390     Document Type: Article

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