Experimental verification of numerically optimized photonic crystal injector, Y-splitter, and bend

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1390-1394

  Ayre, Melanie ^a   Karle, Tim J ^a   Wu, Lijun ^b   Davies, Tom ^c   Krauss, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c Photon Design   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemically assisted ion beam etching (CAIBE); Fabry Perot resonance; Input coupling; Numerical optimization; Photonic crystals (PhCs)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; ETCHING; ION BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION BEAM ETCHING (CAIBE); FABRY-PEROT RESONANCE; INPUT COUPLING; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PHC);

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 23144466243     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.851169     Document Type: Article

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