Surface modes in two-dimensional photonic crystal slabs with a flat dielectric margin

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7368-7377

  Chen, Hui ^a   Tsia, Kevin K ^a,b   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC MARGIN; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE MODE DISPERSION; SURFACE WAVEGUIDE;

CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 33746870354     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007368     Document Type: Article

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