Design of a silicon nitride photonic crystal nanocavity with a Quality factor of one million for coupling to a diamond nanocrystal

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 19136-19145

  McCutcheon, Murray W ^a   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANODIAMONDS; NITRIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON NITRIDE;

CAVITY DIMENSION; CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; DIAMOND NANOCRYSTALS; FIGURES OF MERITS; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY; STRONG COUPLING;

DIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 56149109582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019136     Document Type: Article

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