Direct determination of photonic band structure for waveguiding modes in two-dimensional photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2461-2468

  Inoue, Shin Ichiro ^a   Yokoyama, Shiyoshi ^a   Aoyagi, Yoshinobu ^b,c,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DISPERSIONS; RESONANCE;

ANGLE-RESOLVED ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE COUPLING; WAVEGUIDING MODES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 39749162866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002461     Document Type: Article

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