Stopping light in two dimensional quasicrystalline waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28267-28272

  Trabattoni, A ^a,b   Maini, L ^a   Benedek, G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PHOTONICS; POINT DEFECTS; WAVEGUIDES;

LINEAR DEFECT; LOCALIZED STATE; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC LATTICE; PHOTONIC STATE; QUASICRYSTALLINE;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; MATERIALS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84872034595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028267     Document Type: Article

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