Efficient coupling into slow light photonic crystal waveguide without transition region: Role of evanescent modes

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17338-17343

  De Sterke, C Martijn ^a   Dossou, K B ^b   White, T P ^c   Botten, L C ^b   McPhedran, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELDS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

EFFICIENT COUPLING; EVANESCENT MODE; GUIDED MODES; MODAL FIELD; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PROPAGATING MODE; TRANSITION REGIONS; WAVEGUIDE FIELD;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

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

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

EID: 70349665356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017338     Document Type: Article

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