Low loss dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides for optical delay lines

IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 40-42

  O'Faolain, L ^a   Schulz, S ^a   Beggs, D M ^a   White, T P ^a   Di Falco, A ^a   Samarelli, A ^b   Sorel, M ^b   De La Rue, R M ^b   Morichetti, F ^c   Canciamilla, A ^c   Melloni, A ^c   Krauss, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical buffer; Photonic crystal; Photonic crystal waveguides; Slow light

Indexed keywords

LOW LOSS; OPTICAL BUFFER; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 77950923988     PISSN: 19492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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