Efficient coupling of Light into the planar photonic crystal waveguides in the slow group velocity regime

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6901, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Askari, M ^a   Momeni, B ^a   Yegnanarayanan, S ^a   Eftekhar, A ^a   Adibi, A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Couplers; Integrated optics; Photonic crystals; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES (PCW); VELOCITY MODES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 43249089282     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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