High efficiency interface for coupling into slotted photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-208

  Scullion, M G ^a   Krauss, T F ^a   Di Falco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coupling; photonic crystals; Slotted photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING LIGHT; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MODE DISPERSION; OPTIMIZED GEOMETRIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SLOTTED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79953231643     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2125785     Document Type: Article

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