Flat band slow light in symmetric line defect photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1571-1573

  Hou, Jin ^a   Gao, Dingshan ^a   Wu, Huaming ^a   Hao, Ran ^a   Zhou, Zhiping ^b,c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Photonic crystal (PC); Slow light

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; DIELECTRIC PILLARS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLAT BAND; GROUP INDEX; LINE DEFECTS; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; WAVEGUIDE CORE;

DEFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 77949610547     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2030160     Document Type: Article

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