Microsphere resonators strongly coupled to a plane dielectric substrate: Coupling via the optical near field

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 802-813

  Ishikawa, H ^a   Tamaru, H ^a   Miyano, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRICITY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RESONANCE;

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0034171307     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000802     Document Type: Article

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40. Finer details that do not match with the observed pattern(Fig. 3) are probably due to our complete negligence of the nonresonant contribution, which tends to smear out the interference