Nonlinear and adiabatic control of high-Q photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17458-17481

  Notomi, M ^a   Tanabe, T ^a   Shinya, A ^a   Kuramochi, E ^a   Taniyama, H ^a   Mitsugi, S ^a   Morita, M ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; WAVELENGTH;

ADIABATIC CONTROL; NANOCAVITIES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549048260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017458     Document Type: Article

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