In-plane optical anisotropy of GaN refractive index in visible light region

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 966-968

  Dylewicz, R ^a,b   Patela, Sergiusz ^a   Hogg, R A ^c   Fry, P W ^c   Parbrook, P J ^c   Airey, R ^c   Tahraoui, A ^c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Corrugated waveguides; Couplers; Electromagnetic coupling; Gallium compounds; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical couplers; Optical propagation in anisotropic media; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; CORRUGATED WAVEGUIDES; COUPLERS; GRATINGS; OPTICAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

ANISOTROPY; CORUNDUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 67650648739     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2021150     Document Type: Article

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