Coupling schemes for low-group velocity photonic crystal devices

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1993-2000

  Pergande, Daniel ^a   Von Rhein, Andreas ^b   Geppert, Torsten M ^c   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b HELLA KGAA HUECK AND CO   (Germany)

^c QIMONDA DRESDEN GMBH AND CO OHG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low group velocity; Photonic crystal; Slow light; Surface modes

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; BULK MATERIALS; COUPLING LIGHT; COUPLING SCHEME; EFFICIENT COUPLING; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGH TRANSMISSION; LOW-GROUP VELOCITY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NEW CONCEPT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES; SLOW LIGHT; SURFACE MODES; SURFACE STATE; THIN LAYERS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHT VELOCITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION; SURFACES;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 70350355087     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2009.1255     Document Type: Article

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