Highly efficient photonic-crystal splitters based on one-way waveguiding

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-176

  Wang, Zhuoyuan ^a   Shen, Linfang ^b   Yu, Zaihe ^a   Zhang, Xianmin ^a   Zheng, Xiaodong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRISMS;

INPUT CHANNELS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL; OUTPUT CHANNELS; REGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SPLITTING RATIO; STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY; TRIANGULAR LATTICE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84871756732     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.000173     Document Type: Article

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