Theoretical study of directional emission enhancement from photonic crystal waveguides with tapered exits

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1682-1684

  Kurt, Hamza ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Directional emission; Photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs); Tapered waveguide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; LASER OPTICS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWDERS;

COUPLED BEAMS; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; DIRECTIONAL EMISSIONS; DIVERGENCE ANGLES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LIGHT WAVES; OUTPUT RADIATIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES (PCWS); TAPERED WAVEGUIDE; TAPERING;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 54049100805     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2003403     Document Type: Article

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