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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 9, 967(2019)

Simulating robust far-field coupling to traveling waves in large three-dimensional nanostructured high-Q microresonators

Lei Chen^1,2, Cheng Li², Yu-Min Liu¹, Judith Su^2,3,4、*, and Euan McLeod^2,5、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

²College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

³Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

⁴e-mail: judy@optics.arizona.edu

⁵e-mail: euanmc@optics.arizona.edu

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: May. 24, 2019

Accepted: Jun. 28, 2019

Published Online: Aug. 7, 2019

The Author Email: Judith Su (judy@optics.arizona.edu), Euan McLeod (euanmc@optics.arizona.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000967

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