Tunable photonic crystal microcavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 5574-5579

  Pustai, David M ^a   Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 0037056350     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005574     Document Type: Article

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