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Lead-silicate glass optical microbubble resonator

Lead-silicate glass optical microbubble resonator
Lead-silicate glass optical microbubble resonator
Microbubble whispering gallery resonators have the potential to become key components in a variety of active and passive photonic circuit devices by offering a range of significant functionalities. Here, we report on the fabrication, optical characterization, and theoretical analysis of lead-silicate glass, optical microbubble resonators. Evanescent field coupling to the microbubbles was achieved using a 1 µm diameter, silica microfiber at a wavelength of circa 775 nm. High Q-factor modes were efficiently excited in both single-stem and two-stem, lead-silicate glass, microbubble resonators, with bubble diameters of 38 µm (single-stem) and 48 µm (two-stem). Whispering gallery mode resonances with Q-factors as high as 2.3x105 (single-stem) and 7x106 (two-stem) were observed. By exploiting the high-nonlinearity of the lead-silicate glass, this work will act as a catalyst for studying a range of nonlinear optical effects in microbubbles, such as Raman scattering and four-wave mixing, at low optical powers.
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Wang, P., Ward, J., Yang, Y., Feng, X., Brambilla, G., Farrell, G. and Chormaic, S.N. (2015) Lead-silicate glass optical microbubble resonator. Applied Physics Letters, 106 (6), 061101-[20pp]. (doi:10.1063/1.4908054).

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Microbubble whispering gallery resonators have the potential to become key components in a variety of active and passive photonic circuit devices by offering a range of significant functionalities. Here, we report on the fabrication, optical characterization, and theoretical analysis of lead-silicate glass, optical microbubble resonators. Evanescent field coupling to the microbubbles was achieved using a 1 µm diameter, silica microfiber at a wavelength of circa 775 nm. High Q-factor modes were efficiently excited in both single-stem and two-stem, lead-silicate glass, microbubble resonators, with bubble diameters of 38 µm (single-stem) and 48 µm (two-stem). Whispering gallery mode resonances with Q-factors as high as 2.3x105 (single-stem) and 7x106 (two-stem) were observed. By exploiting the high-nonlinearity of the lead-silicate glass, this work will act as a catalyst for studying a range of nonlinear optical effects in microbubbles, such as Raman scattering and four-wave mixing, at low optical powers.

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Published date: 2015
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 375314
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375314
ISSN: 0003-6951
PURE UUID: 8f2398d1-af0c-4055-b550-c4aa14880317
ORCID for G. Brambilla: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499

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Date deposited: 23 Mar 2015 11:01
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:10

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Author: P. Wang
Author: J. Ward
Author: Y. Yang
Author: X. Feng
Author: G. Brambilla ORCID iD
Author: G. Farrell
Author: S.N. Chormaic

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