Slow light miniature devices with ultra-flattened dispersion in silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13315-13325

  Rawal, Swati ^a   Sinha, Ravindra K ^a   De La Rue, Richard M ^b  

^a DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DISPERSION (WAVES); GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

FLATTENED DISPERSION; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; MINIATURE DEVICES; MINIMAL DISTORTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI); TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION;

SLOW LIGHT;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 68349148165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013315     Document Type: Article

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