Title :
Nonlinear optical effects of ultrahigh-Q wavelength-sized silicon disk cavities immersed in superfluid helium
Author :
Xiankai Sun ; Xufeng Zhang ; Schuck, Carsten ; Tang, Hong X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract :
Wavelength-sized silicon disk cavities in superfluid helium exhibit blue-shifted bistability near the λ-point when subject to high optical input power. At lower temperature, we observe symmetric lineshapes and obtain a large intracavity photon number of 40,000.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; optical bistability; silicon; spectral line breadth; spectral line shift; superfluid helium-4; λ-point; Si-4He; blue-shifted bistability; intracavity photon number; nonlinear optical effects; optical input power; superfluid helium; symmetric lineshapes; ultrahigh-Q wavelength-sized silicon disk cavity; Cavity resonators; Helium; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
