High-Q, low index-contrast polymeric photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22191-22197

  Quan, Qimin ^a   Burgess, Ian B ^a   Tang, Sindy K Y ^a,b   Floyd, Daniel L ^a   Loncar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIACORE; BIOCHEMICAL SENSING; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIGURES OF MERITS; HIGH-Q CAVITY; INDEX CONTRASTS; MODE VOLUME; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLYMERIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWER LEVELS; THERMO-OPTICAL;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 80054893394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022191     Document Type: Article

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