Optomechanical crystals

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7269, 2009, Pages 78-82

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ATTENUATION; OPTICAL METHOD; PERIODICITY; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; OPTOMECHANICAL CRYSTAL; PHOTON; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449091788     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08524     Document Type: Article

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