Conical and biconical ultra-high-Q optical-fiber nanowire microcoil resonator

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 570-573

  Xu, Fei ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Brambilla, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

BICONICAL PROFILE; MICROCOIL RESONATOR; NANOWIRE MICROCOIL RESONATOR;

RESONATORS;

EID: 33947129237     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000570     Document Type: Article

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