Localization in silicon nanophotonic slow-light waveguides

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 90-93

  Mookherjea, Shayan ^a   Park, Jung S ^a   Yang, Shun Hui ^b   Bandaru, Prabhakar R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED RESONATOR; DISORDERED STRUCTURES; LIGHT LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; LONG SEQUENCES; MEMORY ELEMENT; OPTICAL BUFFER; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL;

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 38749144795     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.278     Document Type: Article

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