Deterministic design of wavelength scale, ultra-high Q photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18529-18542

  Quan, Qimin ^a   Loncar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CAVITY QED; DETERMINISTIC DESIGN; DETERMINISTIC METHODS; OPTO-FLUIDICS; OPTO-MECHANICS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; ULTRA-HIGH; ULTRAHIGH-Q; WAVELENGTH SCALE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80052778114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018529     Document Type: Article

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