Title :
Polymer optical waveguide vertically coupled to high-Q whispering gallery resonators
Author :
Le, Thanh ; Savchenkov, Anatoliy A. ; Tazawa, Hidehisa ; Steier, William H. ; Maleki, Lute
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fDate :
4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report on a novel implementation of a polymer optical waveguide vertically coupled to the whispering gallery modes of a fused silica resonator disc. This is the first step in bringing high-Q silica discs close to the integrated optics technology. We obtained near-critical coupling and a loaded Q≈3.4×106.
Keywords :
Q-factor; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; whispering gallery modes; Q-factor; SiO2; fused silica resonator disc; integrated optics; near-critical coupling; polymer optical waveguide; whispering gallery resonators; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical polymers; Optical resonators; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Silicon compounds; Whispering gallery modes; Integrated optics circuits; optical resonators; polymer waveguides; whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.871815
