Dynamic control of the Q factor in a photonic crystal nanocavity

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 862-865

  Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Upham, Jeremy ^a   Nagashima, Takushi ^a   Sugiya, Tomoaki ^a   Asano, Takashi ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MODAL ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

HETERO-INTERFACE MIRRORS; NANOCAVITIES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 35748936131     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1994     Document Type: Article

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