Experimental observation of optical bandgaps for surface electromagnetic waves in a periodically corrugated one-dimensional silicon nitride photonic crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-245

  Descrovi, Emiliano ^a   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^a   Dominici, Lorenzo ^b   Michelotti, Francesco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE WAVES;

POLYMERIC GRATING; SURFACE CORRUGATIONS; SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

OPTICAL BAND GAPS;

POLYMER; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 40149092485     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.000243     Document Type: Article

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