Band formation in coupled-resonator slow-wave structures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17362-17370

  Möller, Björn M ^a   Woggon, Ulrike ^a   Artemyev, Mikhail V ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

COUPLED OSCILLATOR MODEL; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES (CROW); FINITE SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC BANDS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 37249050515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017362     Document Type: Article

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