Cavity formation on an optical nanofiber using focused ion beam milling technique

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14040-14050

  Nayak, K P ^a   Le Kien, Fam ^a   Kawai, Y ^a   Hakuta, K ^a   Nakajima, K ^b   Miyazaki, H T ^b   Sugimoto, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSED ION BEAMS; MILLING (MACHINING); OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA;

CAVITY FORMATION; CAVITY QED; CAVITY SYSTEM; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; GUIDED MODES; SILICA FIBERS; STRONG CONFINEMENT; STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY; SUBWAVELENGTH-DIAMETER;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 79960520792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014040     Document Type: Article

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