Photonic crystal directional coupler switch with small switching length and wide bandwidth

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1223-1229

  Yamamoto, Noritsugu ^a   Ogawa, Toru ^a   Komori, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHOTONS; SWITCHING;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLER SWITCHES; SWITCHING LENGTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 32644450099     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001223     Document Type: Article

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