A wavelength-selective photonic-crystal waveguide coupled to a nanowire light source

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 622-626

  Park, Hong Gyu ^a,b   Barrelet, Carl J ^a   Wu, Yongning ^a   Tian, Bozhi ^a   Qian, Fang ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; INTEGRATED LIGHT SOURCE; INTEGRATED OPTICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE;

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 53349146618     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.180     Document Type: Article

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