Tunable two-dimensional photonic crystal couplers made of dielectric elastomer inclusions

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3452-3457

  Wang, Chun Chih ^a   Chen, Lien Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRODES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

COMPLIANT ELECTRODES; COUPLING CHARACTERISTIC; CYLINDRICAL ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL COUPLER; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; TUNABLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77955970320     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.003452     Document Type: Article

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