Oscillatory thermal dynamics in high-Q PDMS-coated silica toroidal microresonators

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9571-9581

  He, Lina ^a   Xiao, Yun Feng ^a,b   Zhu, Jiangang ^a   Ozdemir, Sahin Kaya ^a   Yang, Lan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; MICRO RESONATORS; OSCILLATION BEHAVIOR; THERMAL DYNAMICS; THERMALLY INDUCED; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; WAVELENGTH SCANNING;

DYNAMICS;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 66849119075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009571     Document Type: Article

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