Reconfigurable multimode photonic-crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11995-12001

  Kurt, Hamza ^a   Citrin, David S ^b,c  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

ARBITRARY WAVEGUIDES; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; EFFICIENT POWER; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; RECONFIGURABLE PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATIONS; TRIANGULAR LATTICE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 49349092326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011995     Document Type: Article

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