Enlargement of omnidirectional photonic bandgap in porous silicon dielectric mirrors with a Gaussian profile refractive index

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Estevez, J O ^a   Arriaga, J ^a   Mndez Blas A ^a   Agarwal, V ^b  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; LIGHT REFRACTION; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TRELLIS CODES;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCES; ANGULAR RANGES; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN PROFILES; GAUSSIAN STRUCTURES; MIRROR STRUCTURES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PHOTONIC BAND-GAP; UNIT CELLS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 60449089126     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3081113     Document Type: Article

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