Evanescent-wave bonding between optical waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 3042-3044

  Povinelli, Michelle L ^a,b   Lončar, Marko ^c   Ibanescu, Mihai ^a   Smythe, Elizabeth J ^c   Johnson, Steven G ^d   Capasso, Federico ^c   Joannopoulos, John D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS; EVANESCENT-WAVE BONDING; INSULATOR MATERIAL SYSTEM; TUNABLE MICROPHOTONIC DEVICES;

INSULATING MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; TUNING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 27844589425     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.003042     Document Type: Article

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