Completely capturing light pulses in a few dynamically tuned microcavities

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 3784-3793

  Otey, Clayton R ^a   Povinelli, Michelle L ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Simulation; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROCAVITIES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

CAVITY LOSS; COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; COUPLED MODE THEORIES; COUPLING CONSTANTS; CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES; FREQUENCY TUNING RANGES; HOLDING TIME; INDEX-TUNING; LIGHT PULSE; OPTICAL PULSES; REFLECTED POWER; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SIMULATION;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 60949102005     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2005511     Document Type: Article

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