Reciprocal transmissions and asymmetric modal distributions in waveguide-coupled spiral-shaped microdisk resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14650-14666

  Lee, Jonathan Y ^a   Luo, Xianshu ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; RESONATORS; SUBSTRATES;

MICRODISK RESONATORS; MIRROR SYMMETRY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 35948935120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014650     Document Type: Article

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