Publication Date:
1998-10-09
Description:
The routing and interconnection of optical signals through narrow channels and around sharp corners are important for large-scale all-optical circuit applications. A recent computational result suggests that photonic crystals may offer a novel way of achieving this goal by providing a mechanism for guiding light that is fundamentally different from traditional index guiding. Waveguiding in a photonic crystal and near 100 percent transmission of electromagnetic waves around sharp 90 degree corners were observed experimentally. Bending radii were made smaller than one wavelength.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lin -- Chow -- Hietala V -- Villeneuve -- Joannopoulos -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 9;282(5387):274-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉S.-Y. Lin, E. Chow, V. Hietala, Sandia National Laboratories, Post Office Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA. P. R. Velleneuve and J. D. Johannopoulos, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9765148" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
