High-Q bismuth-silicate nonlinear glass microsphere resonators

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1013-1020

  Wang, Pengfei ^a,b   Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil ^a   Lee, Timothy ^a   Ding, Ming ^a   Brambilla, Gilberto ^a   Semenova, Yuliya ^b   Wu, Qiang ^b   Koizumi, Fumihito ^c   Farrell, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^c ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical resonators; photothermal effects; Q factor

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICES; EVANESCENT COUPLING; FULLY INTEGRATED; GLASS MICROSPHERES; HIGH NONLINEARITY; HIGH-Q FACTOR; HIGH-Q MODES; INPUT POWER; NONLINEAR GLASS; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS; Q-FACTORS; SILICA FIBERS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; THERMAL RESONANCE;

BISMUTH; GLASS; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONATORS; SILICA;

SILICATES;

EID: 84862646781     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2202385     Document Type: Article

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