Variational principle in whispering gallery mode sensor responses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1038-1045

  Teraoka, Iwao ^a   Arnold, Stephen ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

FIRST ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SENSOR RESPONSE; SPHERICAL RESONATORS; THIN DIELECTRIC LAYER; TRIAL FUNCTIONS; VARIATIONAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EID: 50449090129     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001038     Document Type: Article

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