Planar high index-contrast photonic crystals for telecom applications

Photonic Crystals: Advances in Design, Fabrication, and Characterization

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 308-328

  März, Reinhard ^a   Burger, Sven ^b   Golka, Sebastian ^c   Forchel, Alfred ^d   Hermann, Christian ^e   Jamois, Cecile ^f   Michaelis, Dirk ^g   Wandel, Klaus ^h  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^h SENTECH INSTRUMENTS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of photonic crystals; Patterning of photonic crystals; Photonic crystals; Planar high index contrast photonic crystals for telecom applications; Waveguide losses; WDM applications

Indexed keywords

HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; TELECOM APPLICATIONS; WAVEGUIDE LOSS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84956719144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527602593.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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