Many-element coupled-resonator optical waveguides using gapless-coupled microdisk resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23617-23628

  Luo, Xianshu ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; VIDEODISKS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; FILTERING PERFORMANCE; HIGH-ORDER; MICRO RESONATORS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; OPTICAL DELAY; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SUBMICROMETERS; TRANSMISSION BAND; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 73949116195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023617     Document Type: Article

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