Mode localization and the Q-factor of a cylindrical microresonator

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2385-2387

  Sumetsky, M ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIRECTION; CYLINDER AXIS; CYLINDER MATERIALS; LIGHT BEAM; MICRO RESONATORS; MODE CHARACTERISTICS; MODE LOCALIZATION; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; Q-FACTORS; RESONANT MODE; SELF-INTERFERENCES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LIGHT REFLECTION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RESONATORS;

EID: 77955011691     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.002385     Document Type: Article

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