Whispering Gallery Mode for Second-Harmonic Generation in Microresonators

Author

Kozyreff, G. ; Juarez, J. L Dominguez ; Martorell, Jordi

Author_Institution

ICFO-Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We consider second harmonic generation in the whispering gallery modes (WGM) of a dielectric microsphere. These very high quality resonators have potential application in nonlinear wave-mixing, signal filtering, and to study molecule-cavity interaction. On the surface of the sphere, inversion symmetry is broken, allowing the existence of a local second-order susceptibility. We thus analyze the generation due to a surface nonlinearity.

Keywords

dielectric devices; micromechanical resonators; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical harmonic generation; whispering gallery modes; WGM; dielectric microsphere; inversion symmetry; local second-order susceptibility; microresonators; molecule-cavity interaction; nonlinear wave-mixing; second-harmonic generation; signal filtering; surface nonlinearity; whispering gallery mode; Maxwell equations; Microcavities; Nuclear power generation; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical surface waves; Power harmonic filters; Quantum mechanics; Tellurium; Whispering gallery modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386084

Filename

4386084