High-efficiency broad-band transmission through a double-60° bend in a planar photonic crystal single-line defect waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2469-2471

  Miao, Binglin ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Murakowski, Janusz ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER TUNING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIR HOLES; BROAD BAND TRANSMISSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SINGLE LINE DEFECT WAVEGUIDE; TUNABLE LASER SOURCES; WAVEGUIDE BEND;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 7744232918     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.834888     Document Type: Article

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