Controlled manipulation of mode splitting in an optical microcavity by two Rayleigh scatterers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23535-23543

  Zhu, Jiangang ^a   Özdemir, Şahin Kaya ^a   He, Lina ^a   Yang, Lan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPROBES; RESONATORS;

ANTICROSSINGS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MICRO RESONATORS; MODE SPLITTING; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL SENSING; OPTO-MECHANICS; RAYLEIGH; RICH DYNAMICS; STANDING WAVE MODES; TRAVELLING WAVES; TUNABILITIES;

SCATTERING;

EID: 78149429022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023535     Document Type: Article

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