Controlling light transport by using a graded photonic crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2152-2157

  Ren, Kun ^a   Ren, Xiaobin ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

DEGREE OF CONTROL; DIELECTRIC RODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; FREQUENCY WINDOWS; GRADED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; LIGHT TRANSPORT; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; STRUCTURE GRADIENTS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958737510     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002152     Document Type: Article

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