Compact photonic crystal demultiplexers and spectrometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6480, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Momeni, B ^a   Shah Hosseini, E ^a   Askari, M ^a   Mohammadi, S ^a   Soltani, M ^a   Adibi, A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demultiplexers; Photonic crystals; Spectrometers; Superprism

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS; SPECTROMETERS;

DEMULTIPLEXERS; E-BEAM WRITING; HOST MATERIALS; SUPERPRISM-BASED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 34248664979     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.714663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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