High-Q cavities in multilayer photonic crystal slabs

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17248-17253

  Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^a   De Martyn Sterke, C ^a   Steel, M J ^a,b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^c   Noda, Susumu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLABS (PCS); POLYMER PROCESSING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 37149024083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017248     Document Type: Article

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