Coupling slot-waveguide cavities for large-scale quantum optical devices

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6354-6365

  Su, Chun Hsu ^a   Hiscocks, Mark P ^b   Gibson, Brant C ^a   Greentree, Andrew D ^a   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^a   Ladouceur, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

AIR SLOT; COUPLED SLOTS; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; COUPLING SLOT; FABRY-PEROT; HUBBARD; JAYNES-CUMMINGS; LATERAL COUPLING; LONGITUDINAL COUPLING; MODAL VOLUME; PROPAGATION SIMULATION; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; TIGHT BINDING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; WAVEGUIDE CAVITY;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79953168462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006354     Document Type: Article

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