Slow light in vertically coupled whispering gallery mode resonators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6130, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Maleki, Lute ^a   Matsko, Andrey B ^a   Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Strekalov, Dmitry ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency; Slow Light; Whispering Gallery Modes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SLOW LIGHT; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TRANSPARENCY;

RESONATORS;

EID: 33646766141     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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