Wavelength and loss splitting in directly coupled photonic-crystal defect microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 16255-16264

  Atlasov, Kirill A ^a   Karlsson, Karl Fredrik ^a,b   Rudra, Alok ^a   Dwir, Benjamin ^a   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ANTISYMMETRIC MODE; BARRIER ENGINEERING; COUPLED RESONATOR; COUPLED SYSTEMS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; IMAGINARY PARTS; OPTICAL ENERGY TRANSFER; RADIATION LOSS;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54749114028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016255     Document Type: Article

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