Bloch-Wave Engineering for High-Q, Small-V Microcavities

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1430-1438

  Lalanne, Ph ^a   Hugonin, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Band gap; Cavities; Confinement; Defect modes; Emission; Optical resonators; Q factor

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BAND GAP; BLOCH MODES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0242611998     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818283     Document Type: Article

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