Self-collimation in photonic crystal structures: A new paradigm for applications and device development

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2635-2651

  Prather, Dennis W ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Murakowski, Janusz ^a   Schneider, Garrett J ^a   Sharkawy, Ahmed ^b   Chen, Caihua ^a   Miao, Binglin ^a   Martin, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b EM PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNELLESS WAVEGUIDING; ORTHOGONAL BENDING; SELF COLLIMATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247531951     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/9/S04     Document Type: Article

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