Title :
Air-suspended high-Q ring microcavities with scatterer-avoiding “wiggler” supermode fields
Author :
Yangyang Liu ; Popovic, Milos A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr., Comput., & Energy Eng., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate air-suspended high-Q ring resonators based on multimode Bloch matching and resultant scatterer-avoiding “wiggler” supermode field. Device designs are fabricated in silicon-on-insulator and undercut to form air-suspended structures with measured Q´s up to 139, 000.
Keywords :
light scattering; micro-optics; optical losses; optical resonators; air suspended high-Q ring microcavity; multimode Bloch matching; scatterer avoiding wiggler supermode fields; Microcavities; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Undulators;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu2E.2
