Study of different spectral regions and delay bandwidth relation in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 26965-26977

  Kurt, H ^a   Ustun K ^a   Ayas, L ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

BAND GAPS; BOUNDARY HOLES; BRILLOUIN ZONE EDGE; DELAY BANDWIDTH; FIGURE OF MERIT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GROUP INDEX; GUIDED MODES; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH DISPERSION; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; SLOW-LIGHT PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL REGION; TRADE-OFF RELATIONSHIP; TRANSITION REGIONS; TURNING POINTS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

SLOW LIGHT;

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

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

EID: 78650529553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026965     Document Type: Article

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