Investigation of physical mechanisms in coupling photonic crystal waveguiding structures

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4781-4789

  Badieirostami, Majid ^a   Momeni, Babak ^a   Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a   Xu, Yong ^b   Lee, Reginald K ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCIES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC SLAB; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM;

PHOTONS;

EID: 9344253816     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004781     Document Type: Article

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