Highly dispersive micro-ring resonator based on one dimensional photonic crystal waveguide design and analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3156-3168

  Goldring, Damian ^a   Levy, Uriel ^b   Mendlovic, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODAL ANALYSIS; NOTCH FILTERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

MICRO-RING RESONATORS; MODAL DISPERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33947384931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003156     Document Type: Article

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