High quality-factor optical resonators

Rémi Henriet (1) , Patrice Salzenstein (1) , Davor Ristic (2) , Aurélien Coillet (1) , Michel Mortier (3) , Alphonse Rasoloniaina (4) , Khaldoun Saleh (1, 5, 6) , Gilles Cibiel (6) , Yannick Dumeige (4) , Maurizio Ferrari (2) , Y.K. Chembo (1) , Olivier Llopis (7) , Patrice Féron (4)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
2 IFN - CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies
3 IRCP - Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris
4 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
5 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes
6 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
7 LAAS-MOST - Équipe Microondes et Opto-microondes pour Systèmes de Télécommunications

Various resonators are investigated for microwave photonic applications. Micro-sphere, disk and fiber ring resonators were designed, realized and characterized. Obtained quality factors are as high as Q = 10^10.

Mots clés: quality factor; optical resonator; ZBLALiP; MgF2; optoelectronic oscillator; silica; fiber ring

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Rémi Henriet, Patrice Salzenstein, Davor Ristic, Aurélien Coillet, Michel Mortier, et al.. High quality-factor optical resonators. Physica Scripta, 2014, PHOTONICA'13: 4th International School and Conference on Photonics, T162 (T162), pp.014032. ⟨10.1088/0031-8949/2014/T162/014032⟩. ⟨hal-01072847⟩