All optical reconfiguration of optomechanical filters

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Deotare, Parag B ^a   Bulu, Irfan ^a   Frank, Ian W ^a   Quan, Qimin ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a   Ilic, Rob ^b   Loncar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; FILTER; OPTICS; OPTOMECHANICAL FILTER; PHOTON; REFERENCE VALUE; TEMPERATURE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84865411985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1830     Document Type: Article

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