Sensitive micromechanical displacement detection by scattering evanescent optical waves

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1792-1794

  Ekinci, Kamil L ^a,b   Basarir, Onur ^a,b   Bramhavar, Suraj ^a,b   Basilio Sanchez, Gilberto ^a,b   Morse, Theodore ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT DETECTION; EVANESCENT OPTICAL WAVES; EVANESCENT WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; LASER SOURCES; MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENTS; MICRO-CANTILEVERS; MICRO-MECHANICAL; NANOMECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; POWER LEVELS; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SIMPLE APPROACH; SMALL OSCILLATIONS; TAPERED FIBER; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954911535     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001792     Document Type: Article

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