Optical microcavities: new understandings and developments

Li Ge; Liang Feng; Harald G. L. Schwefel

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000OM1

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, OM1(2017)

Optical microcavities: new understandings and developments

Li Ge^1,2、*, Liang Feng³, and Harald G. L. Schwefel⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Engineering Science and Physics, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, New York 10314, USA

²The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York 10016, USA

³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

⁴The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics, University of Otago, 730 Cumberland Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand

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