Coupled resonator optical waveguide structures with highly dispersive media

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10362-10369

  Neff, Curtis W ^a   Andersson, L Mauritz ^a   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COUPLED RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE (CROW); ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); MOMENTUM SPACE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34547747370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010362     Document Type: Article

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