All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1230-1235

  Shinya, Akihiko ^a   Mitsugi, Satoshi ^a   Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Notomi, Masaya ^a   Yokohama, Itaru ^a   Takara, Hidehiko ^a   Kawanishi, Satoki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIR-HOLE LATTICE; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; TUNNELING FILTERS;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 32644463536     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001230     Document Type: Article

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