Study on a compact flexible photonic crystal waveguide and its bends

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5033-5038

  Chen, Bing ^a   Tang, Tiantong ^a   Chen, Hao ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

ARBITRARY ANGLES; FLEXIBLE PHOTONICS; HIGH TRANSMISSION; HIGHLY DENSE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODES; TWO WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65449134006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005033     Document Type: Article

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