Abrupt coupling between strongly dissimilar waveguides with 100% transmission

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13714-13721

  Kurs, André ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CAVITY MODE; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; LATTICE SPACING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TRANSITION REGIONS;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959900934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013714     Document Type: Article

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