Slow-light, band-edge waveguides for tunable time delays

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7145-7159

  Povinelli, M L ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BAND-EDGE WAVEGUIDES; QUADRATIC-BAND MODEL; SIGNAL DISPERSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRATING STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 24944444778     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007145     Document Type: Article

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