Quasi-two-dimensional optomechanical crystals with a complete phononic bandgap

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5658-5669

  Alegre, Thiago P Mayer ^a   Safavi Naeini, Amir ^a   Winger, Martin ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE; COUPLING STRENGTHS; GHZ FREQUENCIES; LOCALIZED ACOUSTIC MODE; MECHANICAL DAMPING; METRIC PROPERTIES; MODE DENSITY; NANOSCALE PHOTONICS; OPTOMECHANICAL; PHONONIC BANDGAP; SILICON MICROCHIPS;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

EID: 79952600367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005658     Document Type: Article

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