Coupled whispering gallery mode resonators in the Terahertz frequency range

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7336-7343

  Preu, S ^a   Schwefel, H G L ^a   Malzer, S ^a   Dohler G H ^a   Wang, L J ^a   Hanson, M ^b   Zimmerman, J D ^b   Gossard, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYETHYLENES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

Q-FACTOR DEGRADATION; QUARTZ DISK RESONATORS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE; QUARTZ; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 43849108111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007336     Document Type: Article

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