Numerical characterization of whispering-gallery mode optical microcavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 611-618

  Guo, Zhixiong ^a   Quan, Haiyong ^a   Pau, Stanley ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

MICRODISK; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; WHISPERING GALLERY;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33645018307     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000611     Document Type: Article

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