Recent progresses and future prospects of two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4554-4567

  Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Light emission control; Light propagating control; Multi dimensional lasers; Nanocavity; Nonlinearity; Photonic bandgap; Photonic crystals; Photonic heterostructures

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIGHT-EMISSION CONTROL; LIGHT-PROPAGATING CONTROL; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LASERS; NANOCAVITY; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTONIC HETEROSTRUCTURES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 33847643610     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.885777     Document Type: Review

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