Near-field observation of anomalous optical propagation in photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23994-24002

  Tao, Haihua ^a,b   Ren, Cheng ^b   Liu, Yazhao ^b   Wang, Qingkang ^a   Zhang, Daozhong ^b   Li, Zhiyuan ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

1550 NM; COUPLED CAVITY WAVEGUIDES; EIGEN MODES; GROUP VELOCITIES; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MODE CONVERSIONS; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL PROPAGATION; PC WAVEGUIDES; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 78149462830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023994     Document Type: Article

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