Paired modes of heterostructure cavities in photonic crystal waveguides with split band edges

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25693-25701

  Mahmoodian, Sahand ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^b   Ha, Sangwoo ^b   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^b,d   Poulton, Christopher G ^c   Dossou, Kokou B ^c   Botten, Lindsay C ^c   McPhedran, Ross C ^a   Martijn De Sterke, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

BAND EDGE; BAND-EDGES; BRILLOUIN ZONES; CAVITY LENGTH; DETUNINGS; DOUBLE HETEROSTRUCTURES; HETEROSTRUCTURES; PERTURBATIVE METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78650074106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025693     Document Type: Article

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