Hollow-bottle optical microresonators

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20773-20784

  Senthil Murugan, G ^a   Petrovich, M N ^a   Jung, Y ^a   Wilkinson, J S ^a   Zervas, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONATORS; SILICA;

ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT; EXCITATION EFFICIENCY; LOCALIZED LOSS; MICRO RESONATORS; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS; OUTER SURFACE; Q-FACTORS; RESONANCE SPECTRUM; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TAPERED FIBER; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TURNING POINTS;

BOTTLES;

ASSEMBLY; BOTTLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RESONANCE; SILICA;

HYDROGEN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; HYDROGEN; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 80053948641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020773     Document Type: Article

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