Circular grating resonators as small mode-volume microcavities for switching

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 5953-5964

  Scḧonenberger, Sophie ^a   Moll, Nikolaj ^a   Sẗoferle, Thilo ^a   Mahrt, Rainer F ^a   Offrein, Bert J ^a   G̈otzinger, Stephan ^b   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^b   Bolten, Jens ^c   Wahlbrink, Thorsten ^c   Pl̈otzing, Tobias ^d   Waldow, Michael ^d   F̈orst, Michael ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c AMO GMBH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METALS; MICROCAVITIES; MOS DEVICES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

3D FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; CIRCULAR GRATINGS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 65149086527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005953     Document Type: Article

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