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Photonic crystal couplers for slow light

Date

Authors

Ha, Sangwoo

Dossou, Kokou B

Botten, Lindsay

Lavrinenko, Andrei

Chigrin, Dmitry N

Sukhorukov, Andrey

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Abstract

We propose a general approach to the design of directional couplers in photonic-crystals operating in the slowlight regime. We predict, based on a general symmetry analysis, that robust switching of slow-light pulses is possible between antisymmetrically

Keywords

Keywords: Finite difference time domain method; Light velocity; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Photonic band gap; Group velocities; Robust switching; Slow light; Unit cells; Directional couplers Directional coupler; Photonic crystal; Slow light

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/36700

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Proceedings of SPIE - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1117/12.772232

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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