Broad tuning of whispering-gallery modes in silicon microdisks

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14345-14352

  Shainline, Jeffrey M ^a   Fernandes, Gustavo ^a   Liu, Zhijun ^a   Xu, Jimmy ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOGRAPHY; SILICON; TUNING;

ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; QUALITY FACTORS; SPECTRAL SHIFT; THERMAL TUNING; TUNABLE RESONANCES; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EID: 84886947250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014345     Document Type: Article

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