Resonance-enhanced optical forces between coupled photonic crystal slabs

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21897-21909

  Liu, Victor ^a   Povinelli, Michelle ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; GUIDED RESONANCES; LIGHT-INDUCED; OPTICAL FORCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; RESONANCE ENHANCED; UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUMS;

RESONANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; OPTICS; PHOTON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS;

EID: 72449189122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021897     Document Type: Article

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