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Nature Photonics 1, 370 - 371 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.104
Microphotonics: Under pressure
Michelle L. Povinelli1
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Michelle L. Povinelli is in the Ginzton Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
e-mail: mpovinel@stanford.edu
Abstract
Experiments now show that the force exerted by light can be used to pull a waveguide towards a microdisk resonator, illustrating how optical forces could be used for positioning and control in integrated microphotonics.
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