Photoelastic coupling in gallium arsenide optomechanical disk resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14072-14086

  Baker, Christopher ^a   Hease, William ^a   Nguyen, Dac Trung ^a   Andronico, Alessio ^a   Ducci, Sara ^a   Leo, Giuseppe ^a   Favero, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

COUPLING MECHANISM; DISK RESONATOR; ELECTROSTRICTIVE; GAAS SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTOMECHANICAL; RADIATION PRESSURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; UPPER BOUND;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84902952550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014072     Document Type: Article

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