Enhancement of unidirectional transmission through the coupling of nonlinear photonic crystal defects

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2429-2439

  Lin, Xu Sheng ^a   Wu, Wei Qing ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a   Zhou, Kai Feng ^a   Lan, Sheng ^b  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIONS;

ASYMMETRIC CONFIGURATION; COUPLED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEFECTS; COUPLING OF NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; FREQUENCY SPLITTING; MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION CONTRAST; NONLINEAR PROPERTY OF THE STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION CONTRAST; TWO COUPLED DEFECTS; UNIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION;

DEFECTS;

EID: 33645049330     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002429     Document Type: Article

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