Fabrication and characterization of fused microfiber resonators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 766-768

  Pal, Parama ^a   Knox, Wayne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser fusion; Microfibers; Optical fibers; Optical resonators

Indexed keywords

CO LASER; COUPLING REGION; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LOOP RESONATORS; MICRO-FIBER; MICROFIBERS; OPTICAL RESONANCE; Q-FACTORS; SILICA FIBERS; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY;

LASER FUSION; LASER RADIATION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; SILICA;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 77950600202     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2017506     Document Type: Article

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