Improvement of delay-bandwidth product in photonic crystal slow-light waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16309-16319

  Hao, Ran ^a,b   Cassan, Eric ^a   Roux, Xavier Le ^a   Gao, Dingshan ^b   Khanh, Van Do ^a   Vivien, Laurent ^a   Marris Morini, Delphine ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GROUP DELAY; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; FACTOR OF MERITS; FLAT BAND; GROUP INDEX; LARGE DELAYS; NEW RESULTS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77955619679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016309     Document Type: Article

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