Whispering gallery mode spectra of channel waveguide coupled microspheres

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11066-11076

  Panitchob, Y ^a   Senthil Murugan, G ^a   Zervas, M N ^a   Horak, P ^a   Berneschi, S ^b   Pelli, S ^b   Nunzi Conti, G ^c   Wilkinson, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION; EVANESCENT COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; GLASS CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; GLASS MICROSPHERES; MICROSPHERE RESONATORS; PLANAR LIGHT-WAVE CIRCUITS;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 47849104316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011066     Document Type: Article

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