Ultra-high quality factor optical resonators based on semiconductor nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17400-17409

  Zhang, Yinan ^a   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; RESONATORS;

LOW-THRESHOLD LASERS; MODE VOLUME; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; QUALITY FACTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STRONG COUPLING; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 55349120150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017400     Document Type: Article

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