Optimized design of microcoil resonators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1561-1567

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microfibers; Optical fiber coupling; Optical nanowire; Optical resonators; Ring resonators

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; NANOFIBERS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION;

LOW-REFRACTIVE-INDEX MATERIALS; MICROCOIL RESONATORS; RESONATOR GEOMETRY;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 34250800297     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.895546     Document Type: Article

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