Efficient slow-light coupling in a photonic crystal waveguide without transition region

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2644-2646

  White, T P ^a   Botten, L C ^b   De Sterke, C Martijn ^c   Dossou, K B ^b   McPhedran, R C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

EFFICIENT COUPLING; EVANESCENT MODE; GROUP INDEX; INFLECTION POINTS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SLOW MODE; TRANSITION REGIONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 56349145368     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002644     Document Type: Article

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