Integrated waveguide-DBR microcavity optomechanical system

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21904-21918

  Pruessner, Marcel W ^a   Stievater, Todd H ^a   Khurgin, Jacob B ^b   Rabinovich, William S ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICS; RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

COHERENT OSCILLATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-PLANE; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; MICRO-BRIDGE; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL FORCE; OPTO-MECHANICS; OPTOMECHANICAL; OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY FACTORS; RESONANCE LINEWIDTH;

MICROCAVITIES;

EID: 80054917323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021904     Document Type: Article

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