Ultra high quality factor one dimensional photonic crystal/photonic wire micro-cavities in silicon-on-insulator (SOI)

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12084-12089

  Zain, Ahmad Rifqi Md ^a   Johnson, Nigel P ^a   Sorel, Marc ^a   De La Rue, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HOLE DIAMETER; HOLE PLACEMENT; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; QUALITY FACTORS; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI); ULTRA-HIGH; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 49149086341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012084     Document Type: Article

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