Wideband and low dispersion slow-light waveguide based on a photonic crystal with crescent-shaped air holes

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5735-5742

  Meng, Bo ^a,b   Wang, Ling Ling ^a   Huang, Wei Qing ^a   Li, Xiao Fei ^a   Zhai, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Hong ^c  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anshun University   (China)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; DELAY BANDWIDTH; GROUP INDEX; LARGE GROUPS; LOW DISPERSIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TWO DIMENSIONAL PLANE; WIDE-BAND;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84865594603     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.005735     Document Type: Article

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