Highly-efficient directional emission from photonic crystal waveguides for coupling of freely propagated terahertz waves into Si slab waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9281-9286

  Zhang, Yuanliang ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a   Li, Baojun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ANGULAR ALIGNMENT ERROR; EMISSION EFFICIENCY; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34547399668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009281     Document Type: Article

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