Stopping of light by the dynamic tuning of photonic crystal slow light device

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17141-17153

  Saito, Yuji ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TIME MEASUREMENT; TUNING;

CARRIER DISTRIBUTIONS; CARRIER EFFECTS; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; DYNAMIC TUNING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; GROUP VELOCITIES; LIGHT PULSE; PHOTO-EXCITATIONS; PULSE TRAIN; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES; SLOW-LIGHT PULSE; STOPPED LIGHT; TIMING ERRORS; TUNING METHOD;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77955635458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017141     Document Type: Article

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