Confinement of band-edge modes in a photonic crystal slab

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10890-10902

  Bordas, Frédéric ^a   Steel, M J ^b,c   Seassal, Christian ^a   Rahmani, Adel ^d  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROCAVITIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BAND-EDGE MODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; MICROLASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34548094112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010890     Document Type: Article

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