High-Q surface-plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7228, 2009, Pages 455-458

  Min, Bumki ^a,b,d   Ostby, Eric ^a   Sorger, Volker ^b   Ulin Avila, Erick ^b   Yang, Lan ^a,e   Zhang, Xiang ^b,c   Vahala, Kerry ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CAVITY; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; PLASMA;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON;

EID: 58849136346     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07627     Document Type: Article

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