Multilayer mirrored bubbles with spatially-chirped and elastically-tuneable optical bandgaps

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6421-6428

  Kamita, Gen ^a   Kolle, Mathias ^b   Huang, Fumin ^a   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MULTILAYER FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D STRAIN; COLOR DISTRIBUTION; COLOR TUNING; CONCAVE SHAPE; DBR; LAYER THICKNESS; MICRO SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR-IR; SPATIAL CHIRP; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

COLOR;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROBUBBLE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; YOUNG MODULUS;

COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROBUBBLES; REFRACTOMETRY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84858971133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006421     Document Type: Article

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