General methods for designing single-mode planar photonic crystal waveguides in hexagonal lattice structures

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1371-1377

  Wu, N ^a   Javanmard, M ^a   Momeni, B ^a   Soltani, M ^a   Adibi, A ^a   Xu, Y ^b   Lee, R K ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HEXAGONAL LATTICES; PHOTONIC BANDGAPS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 3042593481     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001371     Document Type: Article

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