High-Q nanocavity with a 2-ns photon lifetime

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17206-17213

  Takahashi, Yasushi ^a   Hagino, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Song, Bong Shik ^a,b   Asano, Takashi ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS;

AIR HOLES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 37149016031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017206     Document Type: Article

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