Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors
We demonstrate the fabrication process of millimeter-size lithium niobate (LiNbO<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula>) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) disk-resonators. We fabricate both <inline-formula><tex-math notation...
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| author | Yu Pan Guoping Lin Souleymane Diallo Xianmin Zhang Yanne K. Chembo |
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| description | We demonstrate the fabrication process of millimeter-size lithium niobate (LiNbO<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula>) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) disk-resonators. We fabricate both <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x$</tex-math></inline-formula>- and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$z$</tex-math></inline-formula>-cut disk-resonators, starting from commercially available LiNbO<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula> disks with diameters of 12 mm and thicknesses of 1 mm. We characterize these two WGM resonators using a prism coupling configuration. We find that both resonators feature high loaded quality factors, in both cases higher than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^7$</tex-math></inline-formula> at 1550 nm. We also investigate the polarization and thermal effects in these disk-resonators. The design of high-<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$</tex-math> </inline-formula> LiNbO<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula> disk-resonators with different orientations using the same platform will allow for a wide variety of potential applications in nonlinear and quantum photonics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4a5e6bc08ad5420a985faf5cc676b2012025-08-20T03:30:56ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552017-01-01941810.1109/JPHOT.2017.27272867990496Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality FactorsYu Pan0Guoping Lin1Souleymane Diallo2Xianmin Zhang3Yanne K. Chembo4Optics Department, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, FranceOptics Department, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, FranceOptics Department, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, FranceCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaOptics Department, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, FranceWe demonstrate the fabrication process of millimeter-size lithium niobate (LiNbO<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula>) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) disk-resonators. We fabricate both <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$x$</tex-math></inline-formula>- and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$z$</tex-math></inline-formula>-cut disk-resonators, starting from commercially available LiNbO<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula> disks with diameters of 12 mm and thicknesses of 1 mm. We characterize these two WGM resonators using a prism coupling configuration. We find that both resonators feature high loaded quality factors, in both cases higher than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^7$</tex-math></inline-formula> at 1550 nm. We also investigate the polarization and thermal effects in these disk-resonators. The design of high-<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$</tex-math> </inline-formula> LiNbO<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_3$</tex-math></inline-formula> disk-resonators with different orientations using the same platform will allow for a wide variety of potential applications in nonlinear and quantum photonics.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7990496/Disk-resonatorlithium niobatehigh-<named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content> factorswhispering-gallery-mode |
| spellingShingle | Yu Pan Guoping Lin Souleymane Diallo Xianmin Zhang Yanne K. Chembo Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors IEEE Photonics Journal Disk-resonator lithium niobate high-<named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content> factors whispering-gallery-mode |
| title | Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors |
| title_full | Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors |
| title_fullStr | Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors |
| title_short | Design of X-Cut and Z-Cut Lithium Niobate Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk-Resonators With High Quality Factors |
| title_sort | design of x cut and z cut lithium niobate whispering gallery mode disk resonators with high quality factors |
| topic | Disk-resonator lithium niobate high-<named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content> factors whispering-gallery-mode |
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