Ultrahigh-Q one-dimensional photonic crystal nanocavities with modulated mode-gap barriers on SiO2 claddings and on air claddings

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15859-15869

  Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a,b   Tanabe, Takasumi ^a,b   Kawasaki, Kohei ^a   Roh, Young Geun ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES;

AIR CLADDING; MODAL VOLUME; NANO-CAVITIES; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; Q-VALUES; QUALITY FACTORS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; ULTRAHIGH-Q;

CLADDING (COATING);

EID: 77954899631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015859     Document Type: Article

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