Improvement of thermal properties of ultra-high Q silicon microdisk resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17305-17312

  Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Yegnanarayanan, Siva ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FIELD INTENSITIES; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) PLATFORMS; ULTRAHIGH QUALITY FACTOR (Q) MICRODISK RESONATORS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 37149017344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017305     Document Type: Article

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