Influence of micro-joints formed between spheres in coupled-resonator optical waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22258-22267

  Mitsui, Tadashi ^a   Onodera, Tsunenobu ^b   Wakayama, Yutaka ^a   Hayashi, Takeru ^b   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Takamasu, Tadashi ^a   Oikawa, Hidetoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; RESONATORS; SOLID STATE LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; MICRO-JOINT; NANOJET; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; THROTTLE VALVE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 80054957692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022258     Document Type: Article

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