Tunable dispersion properties of liquid crystal infiltrated into a two-dimensional photonic crystal

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 404-409

  Alagappan, G ^a   Sun, X W ^a   Yu, Ming Bin ^b   Shum, P ^a   Den Engelsen, Daniel ^c,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic; Photonic crystal (PC); Superprism; Tunability

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; ANISOTROPIC PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; DISPERSION CURVES; INCIDENT ANGLES; OPTIC AXIS; POLARIZATION SPLITTINGS; PROPAGATION ANGLE; SHARP CORNERS; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPLITTING ANGLES; SUPERPRISM EFFECTS; SUPERPRISMS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC POLARIZATIONS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC; TUNABILITIES; TUNABLE DISPERSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 36749044076     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.871070     Document Type: Article

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