Dual wavelength demultiplexing by coupling and decoupling of photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1119-1125

  Chien, F S S ^a   Hsu, Y J ^b   Hsieh, W F ^b   Cheng, S C ^c  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES (PCW);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942752313     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001119     Document Type: Article

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