Fast calculation of cavity-mode characteristics of photonic crystal cavities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1940-1942

  Qiang, Zexuan ^a,b   Zhou, Weidong ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cavity quality factor; Defect mode cavity; Effective index method (EIM); Effective index perturbation (EIP); Photonic crystal slabs (PCSs)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BAND EDGE; CAVITY QUALITY FACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL ERROR; DEFECT MODE; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; MODAL PROPERTIES; MODE CHARACTERISTICS; PERTURBATION METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; QUALITY FACTOR Q; RESONANT PEAKS; SINGLE DEFECT;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROCAVITIES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33846825417     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.882289     Document Type: Article

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