Wideband and low dispersion slow light in lattice-shifted photonic crystal waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3188-3194

  Tang, Jian ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Li, Xiaoming ^a   Wang, Boyun ^a   Dong, Chuanbo ^a   Gao, Lei ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   He, Yu ^a   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Group index; group velocity dispersion (GVD); photonic crystal waveguide (PCW); slow light

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; GROUP INDEX; LARGE GROUPS; LINE DEFECTS; LOW DISPERSIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TRIANGULAR LATTICE;

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84884642812     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2280716     Document Type: Article

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