Broadband asymmetric waveguiding of light without polarization limitations

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Xu, Yadong ^a   Gu, Chendong ^a   Hou, Bo ^a   Lai, Yun ^a   Li, Jensen ^b   Chen, Huanyang ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIODE; DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FREQUENCY; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84900840585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3561     Document Type: Article

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