Crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators in optics and photonics

Practical Applications of Microresonators in Optics and Photonics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 133-209

  Maleki, Lute ^a   Ilchenko, Vladimir S ^a   Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Matsko, Andrey B ^a  

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