Lead silicate glass microsphere resonators with absorption-limited Q

Pengfei Wang, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Timothy Lee, Xian Feng, Yuliya Semenova, Qiang Wu, Wei Loh, Gilberto Brambilla, James S. Wilkinson, Gerald Farrell

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Abstract

We report the fabrication and characterization of a lead-silicate glass microsphere resonator. We show that at the wavelengths near 1555 nm high Q modes can be efficiently excited from a 109 μm diameter lead-silicate glass microsphere via evanescent coupling using a tapered silica fiber with a waist diameter of 2 μm. Resonances with Q -factors as high as 0.9× 10 7 were observed. This is very close to the theoretical material-limited Q -factor and is the highest Q -factor reported so far from a nonlinear glass microsphere.

Original languageEnglish
Article number181105
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume98
Issue number18
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 May 2011

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