An optical-fiber-based probe for photonic crystal microcavities

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1321-1328

  Srinivasan, Kartik ^a   Barclay, Paul E ^a   Borselli, Matthew ^a   Painter, Oskar Jon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcavity; Photonic crystals (PCs); Quantum optics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROCAVITY; MICRODISKS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC); QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED);

PHOTONS;

EID: 23144433208     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.851212     Document Type: Review

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