Silicon-based optical leaky wave antenna with narrow beam radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8735-8749

  Song, Qi ^a   Campione, Salvatore ^a   Boyraz, Ozdal ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON NITRIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR ENVIRONMENT; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; BEAM WIDTHS; CARRIER INJECTION; DIRECTIVE RADIATION; DIRECTIVITY; ELECTRONIC TUNING; FAR FIELD RADIATION PATTERNS; FREE-SPACE WAVELENGTHS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; LEAKY WAVES; NARROW BEAMS; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; RADIATION PATTERNS; SILICON-BASED; WAVE NUMBERS;

ANTENNAS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79955451534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008735     Document Type: Article

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