New ring resonator configuration using hybrid photonic crystal and conventional waveguide structures

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2356-2364

  Kim, Seunghyun ^a   Cai, Jingbo ^a   Jiang, Jianhua ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; EFFICIENCY; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RESONATOR ARRAYS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 2942711523     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002356     Document Type: Article

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