Optical resonators with whispering-gallery modes-part II: applications

Author

Ilchenko, Vladimir S. ; Matsko, Andrey B.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

32

Abstract

We review photonic applications of dielectric whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonators-tracing the growth of the technology from experiments with levitating droplets of aerosols to ultrahigh-Q solid state crystalline and integrated on-chip microresonators.

Keywords

Q-factor; aerosols; dielectric resonators; drops; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser cavity resonators; light reflection; microcavities; multiwave mixing; optical filters; solid lasers; spectroscopy; whispering gallery modes; Q-factor; aerosols; four-wave mixing; integrated on-chip microresonators; laser resonators; levitating droplets; monolithic optical total internal reflection resonators; morphology dependent resonances; nonlinear optics; optical filters; optical resonators; parametric optics; photonic applications; solid state lasers; solid-state crystalline microresonators; spectroscopy; tunable filters; ultrahigh-Q microresonators; whispering gallery modes; whispering-gallery mode resonators; Dielectrics; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical sensors; Resonator filters; Whispering gallery modes; Four-wave mixing (FWM); high-order optical filters; laser resonators; lasers; monolithic optical total internal reflection resonators; morphology dependent resonances; nonlinear optics; optical filters; optical resonators; parametric optics; solid state lasers; spectroscopy; tunable filters; wave mixing; whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2005.862943

Filename

1588879