Planar corner-cut square microcavities: Ray optics and FDTD analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4864-4874

  Fong, Chung Yan ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MICROELECTRONICS; OSCILLATIONS; RESONATORS; WAVEFRONTS; WAVEGUIDES;

FABRICATION PROCESSES; POLYGONAL MICRORESONATORS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR); WAVEGUIDE WAVES;

OPTICS;

EID: 9144223808     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004864     Document Type: Article

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