Systematic design of superprism-based photonic crystal demultiplexers

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1355-1363

  Momeni, Babak ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demultiplexer; Photonic crystal; Superprism

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; DEMULTIPLEXING; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DEMULTIPLEXERS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHOTON LOCALIZATIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERPRISMS;

PRISMS;

EID: 23144447916     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.851191     Document Type: Article

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