Fabrication, Characterization and Applications of Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators

Author

Matsko, A.B. ; Savchenkov, A.A. ; Strekalov, D. ; Ilchenko, V.S. ; Yu, N. ; Maleki, L.

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

54

Abstract

We review recent progress in fabrication, characterization, and applications of ultra-high-Q crystalline whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators. We report on the experimental observations of power-dependent, non-exponential decay of light stored in WGMs caused by stimulated Raman scattering in the resonator host material. We show that a proper thermal annealing leads to a significant increase of the quality factors of the resonators. Finally, we demonstrate optical continuous wave parametric oscillations in lithium niobate WGM resonators.

Keywords

Q-factor; annealing; lithium compounds; optical fabrication; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical resonators; stimulated Raman scattering; whispering gallery modes; LiNbO₃; crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators; lithium niobate WGM resonators; optical continuous wave parametric oscillations; quality factors; stimulated Raman scattering; thermal annealing; Annealing; Crystalline materials; Crystallization; Fabrication; Optical materials; Optical resonators; Q factor; Raman scattering; Thermal factors; Whispering gallery modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296242

Filename

4296242