High reflectivity air-bridge subwavelength grating reflector and Fabry-Perot cavity in AlGaAs/GaAs

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2573-2582

  Bisaillon, Eric ^a   Tan, Dawn ^b   Faraji, Behnam ^b   Kirk, Andrew G ^a   Chrowstowski, Lukas ^b   Plant, David V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MIRRORS; OPTICS; REFLECTION;

FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING REFLECTOR; SUSPENDED GRATING;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33645516405     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002573     Document Type: Article

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