Anomalous flow of light near a photonic crystal pseudo-gap

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25320-25327

  Douglass, Kyle M ^a   John, Sajeev ^b   Suezaki, Takashi ^b,c   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^b   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

MODEL-BASED OPC; PHOTON DIFFUSION; PSEUDO-GAP; RANDOM MEDIA; RENORMALIZATION; SCALING THEORIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 82955214585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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