Mode field patterns and preferential mode coupling in planar waveguide-coupled square microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2897-2904

  Fong, Chung Yan ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR); WAVEFRONT MATCHING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942720539     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002897     Document Type: Article

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