Analysis of splitters for self-collimated beams in planar photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1823-1831

  Pustai, David M ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SELF COLLIMATED BEAMS; SELF COLLIMATION PHENOMENON;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 2942737362     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001823     Document Type: Article

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