Ultra-high-Q tunable whispering-gallery-mode microresonator

Author

Pöllinger, Michael ; O´Shea, Donna ; Warken, Florian ; Rauschenbeutel, Arno

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Phys., Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz, Mainz, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The paper here presents a fully tunable ultra-high-Q-whispering-gallery-mode "bottle microresonator", fabricated from standard optical glass fibres. Due to its highly prolate shape, the bottle microresonator gives rise to a class of whispering-gallery-modes (WGMs) with advantageous properties. In addition to the radial confinement by continuous total internal reflection at the resonator surface, the light in these "bottle modes" oscillates back and forth along the resonator axis between two turning-points which are defined by an angular momentum barrier. The resulting axial standing wave structure can be compared to the one observed in Fabry-Perot microresonators.

Keywords

angular momentum; glass fibres; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical fabrication; optical tuning; whispering gallery modes; Fabry-Perot microresonator; angular momentum barrier; bottle microresonator fabrication; optical glass fibre; radial confinement; total internal reflection; tunable ultra-high-Q-whispering-gallery-mode; Atom optics; Fabry-Perot; Glass; Microcavities; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical reflection; Optical resonators; Resonance; Resonant frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192376

Filename

5192376