Optical instability and self-pulsing in silicon nitride whispering gallery resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 29076-29089

  Baker, Christophe ^a   Stapfner, Sebastian ^b   Parrain, David ^a   Ducci, Sara ^a   Leo, Giuseppe ^a   Weig, Eva M ^b   Favero, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONATORS;

DISK RESONATOR; LASER POWER; OPTICAL INSTABILITY; OPTICAL OUTPUT; OPTICAL POWER; SELF-PULSING; THERMOOPTICS; TIME DOMAIN; WHISPERING GALLERY; WHISPERING GALLERY RESONATORS;

SILICON NITRIDE;

SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84872051934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029076     Document Type: Article

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