Strong opto-electro-mechanical coupling in a silicon photonic crystal cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3196-3208

  Pitanti, Alessandro ^a,b   Fink, Johannes M ^a   Safavi Naeini, Amir H ^a,c   Hill, Jeff T ^a,c   Lei, Chan U ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^b,d   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MASKS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; ELECTROMECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL MOTIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; RADIATION PRESSURE; SILICON SURFACES;

SILICON PHOTONICS;

EID: 84922762330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.003196     Document Type: Article

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