High-Q double-disk microcavities for cavity optomechanics

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20911-20919

  Jiang, Xiaoshun ^a,b   Lin, Qiang ^a   Rosenberg, Jessie ^a   Vahala, Kerry ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CAVITY OPTOMECHANICS; FABRICATED DEVICE; GAP REGIONS; GRADIENT FORCE; OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SCATTERING FORCES; SILICON CHIP;

MICROCAVITIES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRESSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 70749096260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020911     Document Type: Article

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