Universal coupling between metal-clad waveguides and optical ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 646-651

  White, Ian M ^a   Suter, Jonathan D ^a   Oveys, Hesam ^a   Fan, Xudong ^a   Smith, Terry L ^b   Zhang, Junying ^b   Koch, Barry J ^b   Haase, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC LOSSES; GOLD; METAL CLADDING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ANTI RESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE (ARROW); METAL CLAD WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL RING RESONATORS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33846518155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000646     Document Type: Article

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