Waveguiding, collimation and subwavelength concentration in photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7997-8007

  Garcia Pomar, J L ^a   Nieto Vesperinas, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC CYLINDERS; INTENSITY LOCALIZATION; SUPERLENSING PROPERTIES;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 30144446175     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007997     Document Type: Article

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