Tunable optical forces between nanophotonic waveguides

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 510-513

  Roels, Joris ^a   De Vlaminck, Iwijn ^b   Lagae, Liesbet ^b   Maes, Bjorn ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

GRADIENT FORCE; NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL FORCE; RELATIVE PHASE; TUNABLE MICROPHOTONIC DEVICES;

NANOPHOTONICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FORCE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OPTICS; OSCILLATOR; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 68949180206     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.186     Document Type: Article

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