Proof of the universality of mode symmetries in creating photonic Dirac cones

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 25181-25194

  Sakoda, Kazuaki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN ZONES; DISPERSION CURVES; EIGEN FREQUENCIES; FIRST-ORDER; PERTURBATION THEORY; SPATIAL SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY OPERATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84868241425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025181     Document Type: Article

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