Pressure tuning of whispering gallery mode resonators

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2721-2726

  Ioppolo, Tindaro ^a   Ötügen, M Volkan ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southern Methodist University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROOPTICS; MICROSPHERES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PRESSURE SENSORS;

HOLLOW POLYMER SPHERES; OPTICAL TUNING; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 36949007140     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002721     Document Type: Article

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