Q factor and emission pattern control of the WG modes in notched microdisk resonators

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-58

  Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a,b,d   Benson, Trevor M ^a,b,e,f   Sewell, Phillip ^a,b,g   Nosich, Alexander I ^a,b,c,g  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^d V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e Institution of Electrical Engineers   (United Kingdom)

^f Institute of Physics   (United Kingdom)

^g Department of Electromagnetics ^*  (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Integral equations; Optical resonators; Semiconductor microdisk lasers; Whispering gallery (WG) modes

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; NOTCHED RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR MICRODISK LASERS; WHISPERING-GALLERY (WG) MODES;

BIOSENSORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 32944461990     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.863002     Document Type: Article

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