Ultra-high Q planar silicon microdisk resonators for chip-scale silicon photonics

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4694-4704

  Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Yegnanarayanan, Siva ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; RESONANCE; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

DISK-ON-SUBSTRATE; LEAKAGE LOSS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDE-CAVITY COUPLING;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 34247179097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004694     Document Type: Article

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