Micron-scale tunability in photonic devices using microfluidics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6329, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Monat, Christelle ^a   Domachuk, Peter ^a   Jaouen, Vincent ^a   Grillet, Christian ^a   Littler, Ian ^a   Croning Golomb, Mark ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Mutzenich, Simon ^b   Mahmud, Tanveer ^b   Rosengarten, Gary ^b   Mitchell, Arnan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RMU University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compactness; Integration; Interferometers; Microfluidic; Microphotonic; Optical tweezers; Sensors; Tunability

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES; INTEGRATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

COMPACTNESS; MICROFLUIDIC; MICROPHOTONIC; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; TUNABILITY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33751433803     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.678008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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