High-frequency silicon optomechanical oscillator with an ultralow threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15991-15996

  Jiang, Wei C ^a   Lu, Xiyuan ^b   Zhang, Jidong ^c   Lin, Qiang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AIR ENVIRONMENT; BROAD APPLICATION; CMOS COMPATIBILITY; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MICRODISK RESONATORS; OPTOMECHANICAL; ULTRA-LOW THRESHOLD;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84863738774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015991     Document Type: Article

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