Ultra slow light achievement in photonic crystals by merging coupled cavities with waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21155-21161

  Üstün, Kadir ^a   Kurt, Hamza ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED CAVITY; GROUP VELOCITIES; LARGE GROUPS; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; LOW-THRESHOLD LASERS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL BUFFER; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSIONS; SLOW-LIGHT PULSE; SQUARE-LATTICE; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ULTRA SLOW LIGHT;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 77958020939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021155     Document Type: Article

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