Photonic crystal waveguides with semi-slow light and tailored dispersion properties

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9444-9450

  Frandsen, Lars H ^a   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^a   Fage Pedersen, Jacob ^a   Borel, Peter I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; VELOCITY CONTROL; WAVEGUIDES;

NEGATIVE GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMI-SLOW LIGHT;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 33749404253     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009444     Document Type: Article

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