Analysis of short range forces in optomechanical devices with a nanogap

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12615-12621

  Pernice, Wolfram H P ^a   Li, Mo ^a   Garcia Sanchez, Daniel ^a   Tang, Hong X ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

CASIMIR; CASIMIR FORCE; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; GRADIENT FORCE; NANO-GAP; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL FORCE; OPTOMECHANICAL; SHORT-RANGE FORCES; SMALL GAPS; TUNABLE DEVICE;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953558750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012615     Document Type: Article

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