High-efficiency antireflection structures for terahertz self-collimating photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1967-1974

  Park, Jong Moon ^a   Lee, Sun Goo ^b   Park, Hae Yong ^c   Kim, Jae Eun ^c   Lee, Myung Hyun ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRENCHING;

ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURES; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL INTERFACES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; SQUARE LATTICES; TERAHERTZ DEVICE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70450173122     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.001967     Document Type: Article

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