High-Q enhancement of attractive and repulsive optical forces between coupled whisperinggallery-mode resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8286-8295

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

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS;

BI-SPHERE MODE; MICROSPHERE RESONATORS; REPULSIVE FORCES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 30144431756     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008286     Document Type: Article

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