Slow-light and evanescent modes at interfaces in photonic crystal waveguides: Optimal extraction from experimental near-field measurements

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 955-963

  Ha, Sangwoo ^a   Spasenovic, Marko ^b   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   White, Thomas P ^a   De Sterke, C Martijn ^c   Kuipers, L ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^d   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LASER OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EVANESCENT MODE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUP VELOCITIES; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MEASURED FIELD; MULTIPLE MODES; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PERIODIC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 79959215962     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.000955     Document Type: Article

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