InGaAsP photonic crystal slot nanobeam waveguides for refractive index sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7946, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Bowen ^a,b   Dündar, Mehmet A ^a   Nötzel, Richard ^a   Karouta, Fouad ^a,c   He, Sailing ^b   Van Der Heijden, Rob W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

nanobeam; photonic crystal; slot

Indexed keywords

INGAAS QUANTUM DOTS; INGAASP; NANOBEAM; OVER-ETCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; SLOT; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; TWO BEAMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; WAVEGUIDES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79955786695     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.873709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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