Design of photonic-crystal and wire waveguide interface

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2740-2745

  Rosa, Lorenzo ^a   Selleri, Stefano ^a   Poli, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite element time domain (FE TD); Photonic crystals; Photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs); Tapered wave guides

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT TIME DOMAIN (FE-TD); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES (PCWS); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TAPERED WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 26844470515     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.853123     Document Type: Article

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