Simultaneous guidance of slow photons and slow acoustic phonons in silicon phoxonic crystal slabs

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9690-9698

  Laude, Vincent ^a   Beugnot, Jean Charles ^a   Benchabane, Sarah ^a   Pennec, Yan ^b   Djafari Rouhani, Bahram ^b   Papanikolaou, Nikos ^c   Escalante, Jose M ^d   Martinez, Alejandro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT; PHONONS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONS; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; ACOUSTIC PHONONS; CIRCULAR HOLES; CRYSTAL SLAB; CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GROUP VELOCITIES; GUIDED MODES; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PHONONIC BAND GAPS; SILICON MEMBRANES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SLOW PHOTONS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79955833604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009690     Document Type: Article

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