Design of high-Q cavities in photonic crystal slab heterostructures by air-holes infiltration

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12451-12456

  Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^a   De Sterke, C Martijn ^a   Steel, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INFILTRATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AIR-HOLES INFILTRATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUALITY FACTORS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33845429567     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012451     Document Type: Article

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