Terahertz modulator based on insulator-metal transition in photonic crystal waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4589-4596

  Fan, Fei ^a   Hou, Yu ^a   Jiang, Zi Wei ^a   Wang, Xiang Hui ^a   Chang, Sheng Jiang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

INSULATOR METAL TRANSITION; METALLIC STATE; MODULATION DEPTH; MODULATION SCHEMES; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; VANADIUM DIOXIDE;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84863731145     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.004589     Document Type: Article

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