Tubular oxide microcavity with high-indexcontrast walls: Mie scattering theory and 3D confinement of resonant modes

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 18555-18567

  Wang, Jiao ^a   Zhan, Tianrong ^a   Huang, Gaoshan ^a   Cui, Xugao ^a   Hu, Xinhua ^a   Mei, Yongfeng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FINE STRUCTURES; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; MICRO-TUBULAR; MIE SCATTERING THEORY; NANOMEMBRANES; NOVEL MATERIALS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL RESONANT; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRE-STRESSED; QUALITY FACTORS; RESONANT MODE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THIN WALLS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84865583977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018555     Document Type: Article

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