Dispersion-controlled slow light in photonic crystal waveguides

Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 443-453

  Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b   Adachi, Jun ^a,b   Ishikura, Norihiro ^a,b   Hamachi, Yohei ^a,b   Sasaki, Hirokazu ^a,b   Kawasaki, Takashi ^a,b   Mori, Daisuke ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical buffer; Optical nonlinearity; Photonic crystal; Photonic router; Slow light

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; REVIEW;

CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 77449110870     PISSN: 03862208     EISSN: 13492896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2183/pjab.85.443     Document Type: Review

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