Fabrication and characterization of optimized corner-cut square microresonators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16516-16522

  Marchena, Elton ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FABRICATION; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING WAVEGUIDES; DRY ETCHING TECHNIQUES; E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; FDTD ANALYSIS; MICRO RESONATORS; SQUARE RESONATORS;

RESONATORS;

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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 54249169537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016516     Document Type: Article

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