Photonic crystal slab mirrors for an ultimate vertical and lateral confinement of light in vertical Fabry Perot cavities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6989, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boutami, S ^a,b   Benbakir, B ^a,b   Letartre, X ^a   Leclercq, J L ^a   Viktorovitch, P ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

Bloch mode; Mirror; Negative group velocity; Photonic crystal; Slow light; Vertical fabry perot cavity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL FILTERS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEAD; LIGHT; MIRRORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; PIGMENTS; POWDERS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TECHNOLOGY;

BLOCH MODES; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG MIRRORS (DBR); FABRY PEROT (F P) CAVITY; HIGH REFLECTIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LATERAL VELOCITIES; NON-LINEAR OPTICS (NLO); OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PC) SLABS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MATERIALS; SINGLE LAYERS;

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EID: 45149115350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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