Analysis of surface modes in photonic crystals by a plane-wave transfer-matrix method

Ming Che1, Zhi-Yuan Li

  • 1Laboratory of Optical Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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