Tunable bipolar optical interactions between guided lightwaves

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 464-468

  Li, Mo ^a   Pernice, W H P ^a   Tang, H X ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS COMPATIBLE; COUPLED DEVICES; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL BONDINGS; OPTICAL FORCE; OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; OPTO-MECHANICS; RELATIVE PHASE;

PHOTONICS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 68749090777     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.116     Document Type: Article

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