Ultracompact and wideband power splitter based on triple photonic crystal waveguides directional coupler

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-42

  Yu, Tian Bao ^a,b   Wang, Ming Hua ^a   Jiang, Xiao Qing ^a   Liao, Qing Hua ^b   Yang, Jian Yi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling; Photonic crystal waveguides; Splitter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; POWER SPLITTERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33847721927     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/1/007     Document Type: Article

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