A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7246, 2009, Pages 550-555

  Eichenfield, Matt ^a   Camacho, Ryan ^a   Chan, Jasper ^a   Vahala, Kerry J ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PRECISION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RIGIDITY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVELENGTH;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; FORCE; LASER; LIGHT; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349158605     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08061     Document Type: Article

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