Tunable photonic structures based on silicon and liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6801, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Perova, Tatiana S ^a   Tolmachev, Vladimir A ^a,b   Astrova, Ekaterina V ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

FTIR microscopy; ID photonic crystals; Photonic gap map; Silicon microphotonics; Tunable photonic devices

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SILICON;

ID PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON MICROPHOTONICS; TUNABLE PHOTONIC DEVICES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 41149158241     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.767324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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