Wideband slow light in chirped slot photoniccrystal coupled waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10567-10580

  Hou, Jin ^a,b   Wu, Huaming ^a,b   Citrin, D S ^c,d   Mo, Wenqin ^a,b   Gao, Dingshan ^b   Zhou, Zhiping ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

APPROXIMATE ZEROS; BAND SHAPES; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; INFLECTION POINTS; LOW DIELECTRIC; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC BANDS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PROCESSING DEVICE; PULSEWIDTHS; SILICON-BASED; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; WIDE-BAND;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952703983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010567     Document Type: Article

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