Engineering the bandgap of a two-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystal

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1478-1483

  Alagappan, G ^a   Sun, X W ^a   Shum, P ^a   Yu, M B ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SQUARE LATTICE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 33749601319     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001478     Document Type: Article

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