Whispering-gallery mode resonators for highly unidirectional laser action

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22407-22412

  Wang, Qi Jie ^a,d   Yan, Changling ^a,e   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Unterhinninghofen, Julia ^b   Wiersig, Jan ^b   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Edamura, Tadataka ^c   Yamanishi, Masamichi ^c   Kan, Hirofumi ^c   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K K   (Japan)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR CASCADE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78651101471     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015386107     Document Type: Article

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