Stretch-tuneable dielectric mirrors and optical microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4356-4364

  Kolle, Mathias ^a   Zheng, Bo ^a   Gibbons, Nicholas ^a   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENES; SILICONES;

CAVITY MODE; DBR; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; LAYER ASSEMBLY; MICRO LASER; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL STRAIN; POLYSTYRENE POLYISOPRENES; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

MICROCAVITIES;

EID: 77749258333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004356     Document Type: Article

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