Slow light in photonic crystals

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 465-473

  Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; SPATIAL COMPRESSION; TIME-DOMAIN PROCESSING;

PHOTONICS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 48849098001     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.146     Document Type: Review

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