Optical add-drop filters based on photonic crystal ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1823-1831

  Zexuan, Qiang ^a   Weidong, Zhou ^a   Soref, Richard A ^b  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROOPTICAL MODULATORS; QUALITY FACTOR; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33847146413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001823     Document Type: Article

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