Mode dercalization in 1D photonic crystal lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18038-18043

  Wu, Yeheng ^a   Singer, Kenneth D ^a,b   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Song, Hyunmin ^b   Baer, Eric ^b   Hiltner, Anne ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DISORDERED LATTICES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; LOCALIZED MODES; LONGITUDINAL MODES;

TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 70349669419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018038     Document Type: Article

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