Large pulse delay and small group velocity achieved using ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7826-7828

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a,b  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

GROUP VELOCITY; OPTICAL BUFFERS; PACKING DENSITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34250174799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007826     Document Type: Article

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