Reconfigurable microfluidic photonic crystal slab cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15887-15896

  Smith, Cameron L C ^a   Bog, Uwe ^a   Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^a   Lee, Michael W ^a   Wu, Darran K C ^a   O'Faolain, Liam ^b   Monat, Christelle ^a   Grillet, Christian ^a   Krauss, Thomas F ^b   Karnutsch, Christian ^a   McPhedran, Ross C ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

DOUBLE HETEROSTRUCTURES; INFILTRATION PROCESS; MICROFLUIDIC CAVITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

MICROFLUIDICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 54749089236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015887     Document Type: Article

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