Analysis of butt coupling in photonic crystals

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 541-550

  Sanchis, Pablo ^a   Bienstman, Peter ^b   Luyssaert, Bert ^b   Baets, Roel ^b   Marti, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering by periodic structures; Optical propagation in nonhomogeneous media; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BUTT COUPLING; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; MODE IMPEDANCE MISMATCH; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 2442673143     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.826428     Document Type: Article

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