Packaged, high-Q, microsphere-resonator-based add-drop filter
Packaged, high-Q, microsphere-resonator-based add-drop filter
In this Letter a packaged add-drop filter composed of a silica microsphere resonator and two fiber tapers is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally. A two-step fabrication process using an UV curable polymer is shown to stabilize the microsphere resonator with a diameter of 153µm coupled to two tapered microfibers with diameters of 1.5µm which are used as add and drop ports. A high loaded quality factor (Q-factor) of 0.9 x 105 and a free spectral range (FSR) of about 104pm are obtained at around 1550nm from the microsphere for the parallel coupling tapered fibers in the add-drop configuration. This device has a range of advantages, such as ease of fabrication, low-cost, and compatibility with traditional and commercial fiber systems.
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Wang, Pengfei
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Ding, Ming
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Bo, Lin
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Guan, Chunying
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Wu, Qiang
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29 August 2014
Wang, Pengfei
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Ding, Ming
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Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
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Bo, Lin
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Guan, Chunying
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Semenova, Yuliya
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Wu, Qiang
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Farrell, Gerald
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Wang, Pengfei, Ding, Ming, Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil, Bo, Lin, Guan, Chunying, Semenova, Yuliya, Wu, Qiang, Farrell, Gerald and Brambilla, Gilberto
(2014)
Packaged, high-Q, microsphere-resonator-based add-drop filter.
Optics Letters, 39 (17), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.39.005208).
Abstract
In this Letter a packaged add-drop filter composed of a silica microsphere resonator and two fiber tapers is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally. A two-step fabrication process using an UV curable polymer is shown to stabilize the microsphere resonator with a diameter of 153µm coupled to two tapered microfibers with diameters of 1.5µm which are used as add and drop ports. A high loaded quality factor (Q-factor) of 0.9 x 105 and a free spectral range (FSR) of about 104pm are obtained at around 1550nm from the microsphere for the parallel coupling tapered fibers in the add-drop configuration. This device has a range of advantages, such as ease of fabrication, low-cost, and compatibility with traditional and commercial fiber systems.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 August 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 August 2014
Published date: 29 August 2014
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