Lead silicate glass microsphere resonators with absorption-limited Q
Lead silicate glass microsphere resonators with absorption-limited Q
We report the fabrication and characterization of a lead-silicate glass microsphere resonator. We show that at the wavelengths near 1555 nm high Q modes can be efficiently excited from a 109 µm diameter lead-silicate glass microsphere via evanescent coupling using a tapered silica fiber with a waist diameter of 2 µm. Resonances with Q-factors as high as 0.9 x 107 were observed. This is very close to the theoretical material-limited Q-factor and is the highest Q-factor reported so far from a nonlinear glass microsphere.
Wang, Pengfei
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Lee, Timothy
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Feng, Xian
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Wu, Qiang
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Loh, Wei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Wilkinson, James S.
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Farrell, Gerald
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May 2011
Wang, Pengfei
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Lee, Timothy
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Feng, Xian
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Semenova, Yuliya
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Wu, Qiang
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Loh, Wei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Wilkinson, James S.
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Farrell, Gerald
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Wang, Pengfei, Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil, Lee, Timothy, Feng, Xian, Semenova, Yuliya, Wu, Qiang, Loh, Wei, Brambilla, Gilberto, Wilkinson, James S. and Farrell, Gerald
(2011)
Lead silicate glass microsphere resonators with absorption-limited Q.
Applied Physics Letters, 98 (18), [181105].
(doi:10.1063/1.3586771).
Abstract
We report the fabrication and characterization of a lead-silicate glass microsphere resonator. We show that at the wavelengths near 1555 nm high Q modes can be efficiently excited from a 109 µm diameter lead-silicate glass microsphere via evanescent coupling using a tapered silica fiber with a waist diameter of 2 µm. Resonances with Q-factors as high as 0.9 x 107 were observed. This is very close to the theoretical material-limited Q-factor and is the highest Q-factor reported so far from a nonlinear glass microsphere.
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Published date: May 2011
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Xian Feng
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