A new method for the calculation of the dispersion of nonperiodic photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1060-1067

  Jafarpour, Aliakbar ^a   Reinke, Charles M ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a   Xu, Yong ^b   Lee, Reginald K ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MORPHOLOGY;

BIPERIODIC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SPATIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 3943083468     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.831613     Document Type: Article

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