Systematic design and fabrication of high-Q single-mode pulley-coupled planar silicon nitride microdisk resonators at visible wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2127-2136

  Hosseini, Ehsan Shah ^a   Yegnanarayanan, Siva ^a   Atabaki, Amir Hossein ^a   Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONATORS; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON OXIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

ADD-DROP FILTERS; COUPLING WAVEGUIDES; CRITICAL COUPLING; DELAY LINE; ETCHED SURFACE; HIGH QUALITY; IN-PLANE; LOW LOSS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; MICRODISKS; RADIAL MODE; RESIST REFLOW; SELECTIVE COUPLING; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

VIDEODISKS;

EID: 76149095942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002127     Document Type: Article

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