Tuning whispering gallery modes in optical microspheres with chemical etching

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10754-10759

  White, Ian M ^a   Hanumegowda, Niranjan M ^a   Oveys, Hesam ^a   Fan, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ETCHING; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE IMAGES; ATOMIC LAYERS; MICROSPHERE RESONATOR; OPTICAL MICROSPHERES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 29244447664     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010754     Document Type: Article

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