Waveguides in inverted opal photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 866-878

  Lousse, Virginie ^a,b   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COATINGS; GERMANIUM; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

OPAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; PROJECTED BAND ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 31144431643     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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