Transmission measurement of tapered single-line defect photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2092-2094

  Xing, Aimin ^a   Davanço, Marcelo ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^a   Hu, Evelyn L ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Photonic crystals (PCs); Waveguides

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC) WAVEGUIDE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; TRANSVERSE ELCTRIC MODE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 26844434061     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.856418     Document Type: Article

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