Polymer optical waveguide vertically coupled to high-Q whispering gallery resonators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 859-861

  Le, Thanh ^a   Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Tazawa, Hidehisa ^b   Steier, William H ^b   Malek, Lute ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics circuits; Optical resonators; Polymer waveguides; Q factor; Whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS CIRCUIT; INTEGRATED OPTICS CIRCUITS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; Q-FACTORS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SILICA; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 33846175742     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871815     Document Type: Article

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