• DocumentCode
    1552933
  • Title

    Photonic crystal line defect waveguide directional coupler

  • Author

    Tokushima, M. ; Yamada, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    37
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    1454
  • Lastpage
    1455
  • Abstract
    A three-port directional coupler based on photonic crystal line defect waveguides is demonstrated. The directional coupler has only a 21 /spl mu/m long coupling region. Wavelength-selecting operation around 1.5 /spl mu/m wavelength was confirmed.
  • Keywords
    optical directional couplers; optical fabrication; optical planar waveguides; photonic band gap; 1.5 micron; 21 micron; coupling region; directional coupler; photonic crystal line defect waveguide directional coupler; photonic line defect waveguides; three-port directional coupler; waveguide directional coupler; wavelength-selecting operation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20010995
  • Filename
    970389