Fundamental thermal fluctuations in microspheres

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 697-705

  Gorodetsky, Michael L ^a   Grudinin, Ivan S ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMICS;

OPTICAL MICROSPHERES; THERMOREFRACTIVE FLUCTUATIONS; THERMOREFRACTIVE NOISE;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 9144221352     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000697     Document Type: Article

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