Effects of structure parameters and structural deviations on the characteristics of photonic crystal directional couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4049-4054

  Mao, Xiaoyu ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a   Cui, Kaiyu ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Peng, Jiangde ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Couplers; Photonic crystals; Structural deviations; Structure parameters

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; COUPLERS; COUPLING CHARACTERISTIC; COUPLING LENGTH; COUPLING REGION; FABRICATION IMPERFECTIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; STRUCTURAL DEVIATIONS; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; STRUCTURE PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC SIMULATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

CORRELATION THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; INSERTION LOSSES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 69849103646     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2021865     Document Type: Article

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