Adiabatic self-tuning in a silicon microdisk optical resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14801-14811

  Lin, Q ^a   Johnson, T J ^a   Michael, C P ^a   Painter, O ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME DELAY;

MICRODISK RESONATORS; MICRODISKS; NONLINEAR CAVITIES; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; SELFTUNING; TUNABLE TIME DELAYS;

RESONATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 52049121016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014801     Document Type: Article

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