Design and fabrication of high quality-factor 1-D photonic crystal/photonic wire extended microcavities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 610-612

  Md Zain, Ahmad Rifqi ^a   Johnson, Nigel P ^b   Sorel, Marc ^b   De La Rue, Richard M ^b  

^a Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Photonic crystals (PhCs); Photonic wires (PhWs); Silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

CAVITY LENGTH; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; PHOTONIC WIRES; QUALITY FACTORS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI); SILICON-ON-INSULATORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROSENSORS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; POWER INDUCTORS; WIRE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77950649709     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2040978     Document Type: Article

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