Investigation of band structures for 2D non-diagonal anisotropic photonic crystals using a finite element method based eigenvalue algorithm

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5416-5430

  Hsu, Sen Ming ^a   Chen, Ming Mung ^a   Chang, Hung Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BAND STRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS; BRILLOUIN ZONE; IN-PLANE WAVE PROPAGATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247846381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005416     Document Type: Article

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