Asymmetric light propagation in chirped photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20635-20646

  Kurt, H ^a   Yilmaz, D ^a   Akosman, A E ^b   Ozbay, E ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

BACKWARD PROPAGATION; CENTERLINES; CHIRPED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DIODES; PC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; UNIT CELLS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

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

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

EID: 84865759696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020635     Document Type: Article

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