Small-volume waveguide-section high Q microcavities in 2D photonic crystal slabs

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3988-3995

  Zhang, Ziyang ^a   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATION; MICROCAVITIES; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC);

PHOTONS;

EID: 4644371173     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003988     Document Type: Article

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