A near-field actuated optical nanocavity

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 279-286

  Cluzel, Benoit ^a,b   Lalouat, Loïc ^b   Velha, Philippe ^a,c   Picard, Emmanuel ^a   Peyrade, David ^c   Rodier, Jean Claude ^c   Charvolin, Thomas ^a   Lalanne, Philippe ^c   De Fornel, Frédérique ^b   Hadji, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LINEWIDTH; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUNING;

NANOCAVITY RESONANCE; OPTICAL NANOCAVITY; RESONANCE ENERGY; SPECTRAL RANGE;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 38049141212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000279     Document Type: Article

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