Q-factor microcavity design based on 12-fold photonic quasicrystals

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-138

  Rostami, Ali ^a   Matloub, Samiye ^a   Haddadpour, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

high quality factor; microcavity; photonic quasicrystal

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MICROCAVITY STRUCTURES; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTAL; Q-FACTORS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS;

CRYSTALS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUASICRYSTALS;

MICROCAVITIES;

EID: 79953697394     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: 10964681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030.2011.557141     Document Type: Article

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