Observation of extraordinary optical activity in planar chiral photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7189-7196

  Konishi, Kuniaki ^a   Bai, Benfeng ^b   Meng, Xiangfeng ^b,c   Karvinen, Petri ^b   Turunen, Jari ^b   Svirko, Yuri P ^b   Kuwata Gonokami, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM OPTICS;

IN-PLANE BIREFRINGENCE; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDE; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PLANAR CHIRAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 43849091105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007189     Document Type: Article

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