Perturbations of whispering gallery modes by nanoparticles embedded in microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5421-5426

  Hiremath, K R ^a   Astratov, V N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROCAVITIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SPECTRAL SHIFT; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES (WGM);

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 42149181233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005421     Document Type: Article

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