All-optical tunability of a nonlinear photonic crystal channel drop filter

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1605-1610

  Panoiu, Nicolae C ^a   Bahl, Mayank ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a  

^a Department of Applied Physics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALL OPTICAL DEVICES; KERR EFFECT; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2942715330     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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