Low propagation loss of 0.76 dB/mm in GaAs-based single-line-defect two-dimensional photonic crystal slab waveguides up to 1 cm in length

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1090-1096

  Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Tanaka, Yu ^a   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Nakamura, Yusui ^a   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Inoue, Kuon ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC-CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942720870     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001090     Document Type: Article

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