High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6961, 2003, Pages 944-947

  Akahane, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Asano, Takashi ^a   Song, Bong Shik ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTER; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORY;

EID: 0242499516     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02063     Document Type: Article

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