Fabrication and characterization of whispering-gallery-mode resonators made of polymers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2573-2578

  Schwesyg, Judith R ^a   Beckmann, Tobias ^a   Zimmermann, Anne S ^a   Buse, Karsten ^a   Haertle, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POLYMERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONATORS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MATERIAL ABSORPTION; NEAR INFRARED; Q-FACTORS; TWO WAVELENGTH; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 60549113937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002573     Document Type: Article

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