Photosensitive post tuning of chalcogenide photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1277-1285

  Lee, Michael W ^a   Grillet, Christian ^a   Smith, Cameron L C ^a   Moss, David J ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Freeman, Darren ^c   Luther Davies, Barry ^c   Madden, Steve ^c   Rode, Andrei ^c   Ruan, Yinlan ^d   Lee, Yong Hee ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; PHOTOSENSITIVE GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

CHALCOGENIDE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; NEAR BANDGAP LIGHT; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICE; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBER;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33846872384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001277     Document Type: Article

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