Genetically designed L3 photonic crystal nanocavities with measured quality factor exceeding one million

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 24, 2014, Pages

  Lai, Y ^a   Pirotta, S ^b   Urbinati, G ^b   Gerace, D ^b   Minkov, M ^c   Savona, V ^c   Badolato, A ^a   Galli, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS; ULTRA-HIGH Q RESONATORS;

SILICON PHOTONICS;

EID: 84903161666     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4882860     Document Type: Article

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