Achieving centimetre-scale supercollimation in a large-area two-dimensional photonic crystal

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-96

  Rakich, Peter T ^a   Dahlem, Marcus S ^a   Tandon, Sheila ^a   Banescu, Mihaii ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a   Petrich, Gale S ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Kolodziejski, Leslie A ^a   Ippen, Erich P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; THICK FILMS;

CONFOCAL IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (NSOM); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHC); SUPERCOLLIMATION;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 31744439906     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1568     Document Type: Article

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