Efficient transmission mechanisms for waveguides with 90° bends in pillar photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2472-2479

  Tokushima, Masatoshi ^a   Ushida, Jun ^a   Gomyo, Akiko ^a   Shirane, Masayuki ^a   Yamada, Hirohito ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MIRRORS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATION; MIRROR-SYMMETRY PLANE; PILLAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANE-WAVE COMPONENTS; TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS; WAVE VECTOR; WAVEGUIDE BEND;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 28044443388     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002472     Document Type: Article

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