Experimental demonstration of wideband dispersion-compensated slow light by a chirped photonic crystal directional coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5264-5270

  Mori, Daisuke ^a   Kubo, Shousaku ^a   Sasaki, Hirokazu ^a   Baba, Toshihiko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

AIRHOLE DIAMETER CHIRPING; GROUP INDEX; WIDEBAND DISPERSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247853523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005264     Document Type: Article

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