Analysis of surface modes in photonic crystals by a plane-wave transfer-matrix method

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2177-2184

  Che, Ming ^a   Li, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SURFACE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

A PLANES; CELL LAYERS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CRYSTAL SURFACES; DESIGN SURFACES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DO-MAINS; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MATRIX METHODS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; SUPERCELL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE MODES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVE EXPANSION METHODS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 56849124453     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002177     Document Type: Article

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