Tunable optical nanocavity based on modulation of near-field coupling between subwavelength periodic nanostructures

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 478-483

  Nakagawa, Wataru ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanotechnology; Optical filters; Optical MEMS; Optical nanostructures; Optical near field coupling; Optical near field localization; Optical propagation in nonhomogeneous media; Optical resonators

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESONANCE;

OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL NEAR-FIELD COUPLING; OPTICAL NEAR-FIELD LOCALIZATION; OPTICAL PROPAGATION OF NONHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 4344701216     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.828489     Document Type: Article

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