Theoretical prediction of a dramatic Q-factor enhancement and degeneracy removal of whispering gallery modes in symmetrical photonic molecules

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 338-340

  Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TUNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DEGENERACY; LASING OPERATION; PHOTONIC MOLECULES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33645109444     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000338     Document Type: Article

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