Refractive index sensing utilizing a cw photonic crystal nanolaser and its array configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8174-8180

  Kita, Shota ^a,b   Nozaki, Kengo ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIPS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LASING WAVELENGTH SHIFTS; NANOLASERS; SPECTROMETER FREE SENSORS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 44649113063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008174     Document Type: Article

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