Silicon Bullseye Microdisk (IMAGE)

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Silicon Bullseye Microdisk

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Researchers created an optomechanical silicon bullseye disk that traps optical waves in the outermost ring via total internal reflection while the radial groves confine the mechanical waves to the same area.

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Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, University of Campinas

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