Thermally controllable silicon photonic crystal nanobeam cavity without surface cladding for sensing applications

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 470-474

  Fegadolli, William S ^a   Pavarelli, Nicola ^b   O'Brien, Peter ^b   Njoroge, Samuel ^a   Almeida, Vilson R ^c   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

integrated optics; optical sensing; photonic crystal nanobeam cavity; silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON;

HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; OPTICAL SENSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOBEAM; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTONICS; TEMPERATURE SWITCHING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

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EID: 84927750011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5004863     Document Type: Article

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