Crystalline cavities for quantum and nonlinear optics

Author

Grudinin, Ivan S. ; Matsko, Andrey B. ; Savchenkov, Anatoliy A. ; Maleki, Lute ; Rubiola, Enrico

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the spontaneous Raman scattering is primarily responsible for the attenuation in an ideal crystal at low temperatures. Applying this result to the crystalline whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators we find the limits to the quality factor. We also show that, in contrast to the low temperature regime, spontaneous Brillouin scattering as well as stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) determine the Q factor of a WGM resonator under realistic experimental conditions at room temperature.

Keywords

cavity resonators; optical materials; optical resonators; quantum optics; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; whispering gallery modes; Q factor; Raman gain; crystalline WGM resonators; crystalline cavities; nonlinear optics; quantum optics; spontaneous Brillouin scattering; spontaneous Raman scattering; temperature 293 K to 298 K; whispering gallery mode; Brillouin scattering; Crystallization; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical resonators; Optical scattering; Q factor; Raman scattering; Temperature; Ultrafast optics;

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.2007.4386859

Filename

4386859