Chalcogenide microsphere fabricated from fiber tapers using contact with a high-temperature ceramic surface

Pengfei Wang, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Gilberto Brambilla, Ming Ding, Yuliya Semenova, Qiang Wu, Gerald Farrell

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    Abstract

    The fabrication and characterization of a chalcogenide glass microsphere resonator has been demonstrated. At wavelengths near 1550 nm, whispering gallery mode resonances can be efficiently excited in a 74-μm-diameter chalcogenide glass microsphere via evanescent coupling using a tapered silica glass fiber with a waist diameter of circa 2 μm. Resonances with Q-factors greater than 105 were observed. Due to the high nonlinearity properties of the chalcogenide material and the ease of fabrication process, chalcogenide microspheres offer the potential for robustly assembled fully integrated photonic devices.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1103-1105
    JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume24
    Issue number13
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Keywords

    • chalcogenide glass
    • fiber taper
    • microshpere
    • resistive heating

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