Apodized photonic crystal waveguide gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4459-4468

  Yokoi, Nobuhiro ^a   Fujisawa, Takeshi ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COSINE TRANSFORMS; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC PILLARS; GAUSS-COSINE FUNCTIONS FOR THE APODIZATION, BRAGG FREQUENCY OF THE WAVEGUIDE; PC WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33646682603     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004459     Document Type: Article

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