Nanowire coupling to photonic crystal nanocavities for single photon sources

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1267-1276

  Grillet, Christian ^a   Monat, Christelle ^a   Smith, Cameron L C ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Moss, David J ^b   Frédérick, Simon ^d   Dalacu, Dan ^c   Poole, Philip J ^c   Lapointe, Jean ^c   Aers, Geof ^c   Williams, Robin L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EVANESCENT COUPLING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PURCELL FACTOR; SILICA LOOP NANOWIRE; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33846878070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001267     Document Type: Article

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