Optical gap formation and localization properties of optical modes in deterministic aperiodic photonic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18813-18826

  Boriskina, Svetlana Y ^a   Gopinath, Ashwin ^a   Dal Negro, Luca ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; LATTICE THEORY; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS;

ACTIVE PHOTONIC DEVICES; APERIODIC PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; BIO-CHEMICAL SENSOR; CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES; LOCALIZATION PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; RUDIN-SHAPIRO SEQUENCES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 56149116346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018813     Document Type: Article

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