Coupling light into a whispering-gallery mode resonator with self-focused beam

Kien Phan Huy (1) , Jassem Safioui (1) , Mathieu Chauvet (1) , Patrice Féron (2)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
2 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

Light coupling into a whispering-gallerymode resonator with a spatial soliton is demonstrated.Our setup, based on a LiNbO3 prism, features robustness, mode selectivity and single-mode propagation thanks to the nonlinear confinement.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Kien Phan Huy, Jassem Safioui, Mathieu Chauvet, Patrice Féron. Coupling light into a whispering-gallery mode resonator with self-focused beam. OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2014, Jul 2014, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-01152945⟩