Electrically tunable silicon-based mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4654, Issue , 2002, Pages 36-44

  Weiss, Sharon M ^a   Fauchet, Philippe M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal; Microcavity; Porous silicon; Reflectivity; Resonance; Switching; Tunable mirror

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INFILTRATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POROUS SILICON;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE SILICON BASED MIRRORS; POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY RESONATOR;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0036405895     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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