High quality-factor 1-D-suspended photonic crystal/photonic wire silicon waveguide micro-cavities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 1789-1791

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Membrane photonics; Photonic crystals (phcs); Photonic wires (phws); Silicon on insulator (soi)

Indexed keywords

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HIGH QUALITY; MEASURED RESULTS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; PHOTONIC WIRES; Q-FACTORS; RESONANCE PEAK; SILICA CLADDING; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; WIRE WAVE GUIDES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; RESONANCE; SILICA; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77954834651     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2033712     Document Type: Article

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