Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal cavity created by modulating air hole radius of a waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4605-4614

  Kwon, Soon Hong ^a   Sünner, Thomas ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS;

AIR HOLE RADIUS; ULTRAHIGH Q;

WAVEGUIDES;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 41649087150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004605     Document Type: Article

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