Bandgap formation and selective suppression of Bloch states in birefringent gyrotropic Bragg waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13421-13430

  Levy, Miguel ^a   Jalali, Amir A ^a   Zhou, Ziyou ^a   Dissanayake, Neluka ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; WAVEGUIDES;

BAND-GAP EDGE; BRAGG WAVEGUIDE; BRILLOUIN ZONES; CONTRA-DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; MAGNETOPHOTONIC CRYSTALS; NORMAL-MODE COUPLING; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; POLARIZATION STATE;

ENERGY GAP;

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

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

EID: 50049118852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013421     Document Type: Article

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