Frequency dependent steering with backward leaky waves via photonic crystal interface layer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9879-9890

  Colak, Evrim ^a   Caglayan, Humeyra ^a   Cakmak, Atilla Ozgur ^a   Villa, Alessandro Delia ^b   Capolino, Filippo ^b,c   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a Nanotechnology Research Center   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE WAVES; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

ANGULAR RADIATION; BACKWARD RADIATION; CRYSTAL INTERFACES; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; SURFACE WAVE STRUCTURES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66849104295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009879     Document Type: Article

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