Photonic band gap analysis using finite-difference frequency-domain method

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1741-1746

  Guo, Shangping ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Albin, Sacharia ^a   Rogowski, Robert S ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FDFD) METHOD; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PLANE WAVE METHOD (PWM);

MICROOPTICS;

EID: 2942720897     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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