Slow light in a dielectric waveguide with negative-refractive-index photonic crystal cladding

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11077-11082

  He, Jinlong ^a   Jin, Yi ^b,c   Hong, Zhi ^a   He, Sailing ^b,c  

^a CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JORCEP

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND EXCITATION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ZERO-GROUP VELOCITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 47849087730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011077     Document Type: Article

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