Polarization and thickness dependent guiding in the photonic crystal slab waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8391-8400

  Bayat, Khadijeh ^a   Chaudhuri, Sujeet K ^a   Safavi Naeini, Saffiedin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY BANDS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

EFFECTIVE INDEX METHODS; MODAL PROPAGATION; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34250894294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008391     Document Type: Article

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