Controlling uncoupled resonances in photonic crystals through breaking the mirror symmetry

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13090-13103

  Kilic, Onur ^a   Digonnet, Michel ^a   Kino, Gordon ^a   Solgaard, Olav ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MIRRORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BROKEN MIRROR SYMMETRY; EIGEN MODES; MIRROR SYMMETRY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 50049100939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013090     Document Type: Article

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