High efficiency photonic crystal based wavelength demultiplexer

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7931-7942

  Tekeste, Meron Y ^a   Yarrison Rice, Jan M ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMULTIPLEXING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PHOTONS; SILICON NITRIDE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; TWO-CHANNEL WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXER;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 33747795618     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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