Prospects of Wannier functions in investigating photonic crystal all-optical devices for signal processing

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 757-765

  Muradoglu, M S ^a   Baghai Wadji, A R ^b   Ng, T W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

3D STRUCTURE; ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; ALL-OPTICAL DEVICE; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOCH FUNCTIONS; BLOCH WAVES; EIGENPAIRS; EQUIVALENT SYSTEM; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; WANNIER FUNCTIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77950392431     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000757     Document Type: Article

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