Evaluation of self-collimated beams in photonic crystals for optical interconnect

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1341-1347

  Yamashita, Tsuyoshi ^a   Summers, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Phosphor Technology Center of Excellence   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical interconnect; Photonic bandgap; Photonic crystals; Self collimation

Indexed keywords

CROSS-COUPLING; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SELF-COLLIMATION;

BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 23144450071     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.851200     Document Type: Article

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