Dynamic acousto-optic control of a strongly coupled photonic molecule

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kapfinger, Stephan ^a,b   Reichert, Thorsten ^b,c   Lichtmannecker, Stefan ^b,c   Müller, Kai ^b,c,d   Finley, Jonathan J ^b,c   Wixforth, Achim ^a,b,e   Kaniber, Michael ^c   Krenner, Hubert J ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^c WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; MOLECULE; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PHONON; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84943339276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9540     Document Type: Article

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