Optical resonant sensors: A method to reduce the effect of thermal drift

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 458-463

  Le, Thanh ^a,b   Savchenkov, Anatoliy ^a,c   Yu, Nan ^a   Maleki, Lute ^a   Steier, W H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c OEWAVES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DETECTION LIMITS; DIFFERENTIAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL RESONANT; QUALITY FACTOR Q; SENSOR APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EID: 61349186998     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000458     Document Type: Article

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