Topology optimised photonic crystal waveguide intersections with high-transmittance and low crosstalk

Electronics Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1031-1033

  Ikeda, N ^a,d   Sugimoto, Y ^a,d   Watanabe, Y ^a   Ozaki, N ^a   Mizutani, A ^a   Takata, Y ^a   Jensen, J S ^b   Sigmund, O ^b   Borel, P I ^b   Kristensen, M ^c   Asakawa, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

BEAM PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748107383     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20062027     Document Type: Article

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