Tunable photonic crystal waveguide coupler with nematic liquid crystals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1849-1851

  Liu, Chen Yang ^a   Chen, Lien Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SWITCHING DEVICES; TUNABLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE COUPLER;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 4043058703     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831267     Document Type: Article

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