Numerical study of light propagation via whispering gallery modes in microcylinder coupled resonator optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6468-6480

  Deng, Shaozhong ^a   Cai, Wei ^b   Astratov, Vasily N ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

AZIMUTHAL NUMBERS; INTER-RESONATOR GAP SIZES; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION AND ANALYSIS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES (WGM);

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 11244287365     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006468     Document Type: Article

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