Enhancing intensity of emitted light from a ring by incorporating a circular groove

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15029-15034

  Chang, C K ^a   Lin, D Z ^a   Chang, Y C ^b   Lin, M W ^b   Yeh, J T ^b   Liu, J M ^b   Yeh, C S ^a   Lee, C K ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; GLASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LIGHT INTENSITY; SINGLE CIRCULAR GROOVES (RCG);

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 36249031581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015029     Document Type: Article

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