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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
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Published on: November 30, 2012

Reformulation of the plane wave method to model photonic crystals

Rossella Zoli, Marco Gnan, Davide Castaldini

    Optics Express
    |May 28, 2009
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