Photonic crystal power splitter and wavelength multi/demultiplexer based on directional coupling

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ghaffari, A ^a   Djavid, M ^a   Monifi, F ^a   Abrishamian, M S ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Directional coupling; FDTD; Photonic crystal; Power splitter; Wavelength multi demultiplexer

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWDERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

BENT WAVEGUIDES; COMPACT SIZES; COUPLED MODE THEORY (CMT); COUPLING LENGTH; DIRECTIONAL COUPLINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) TECHNIQUES; MULTI/DEMULTIPLEXER; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SCATTERING; PARALLEL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC; POWER SPLITTERS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2D) PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

EID: 47249101090     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/7/075203     Document Type: Article

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