Demonstration of a cavity coupler based on a resonant waveguide grating

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-169

  Brückner, Frank ^a   Friedrich, Daniel ^b   Clausnitzer, Tina ^a   Burmeister, Oliver ^b   Britzger, Michael ^b   Kley, Ernst Bernhard ^a   Danzmann, Karsten ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a   Schnabel, Roman ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; GRAVITY WAVES; GROUND STATE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMAL NOISE;

COUPLER REFLECTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GUIDED MODE RESONANT GRATING; MULTILAYER OPTICAL COATINGS; QUANTUM GROUND STATE; STANDARD QUANTUM LIMITS;

WAVEGUIDES;

NANOMATERIAL; OXIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TANTALUM; TANTALUM OXIDE;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TANTALUM;

EID: 58449106297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000163     Document Type: Article

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