Light propagation in a resonantly absorbing waveguide array

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7222-7229

  Feng, Mingneng ^a   Liu, Yikun ^a   Li, Yongyao ^a   Xie, Xiangsheng ^a   Zhou, Jianying ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFRACTED WAVES; DIFFRACTION SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; KRAMERS-KRONIG RELATIONSHIP; LINE SHAPE; LORENTZIAN LINE SHAPE; MATERIAL ABSORPTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR; REAL PART; SPECTRAL HOLE; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79953874280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007222     Document Type: Article

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