Title :
High-Q Mid-Infrared Chalcogenide Glass Resonators for Chemical Sensing
Author :
Hongtao Lin ; Yang Xiang ; Lan Li ; McLaughlin, Keiran ; Yangchen Liu ; Chillakuru, Yeshwant ; Koontz, Erick ; Musgraves, J. David ; Richardson, Kathleen ; Chaoying Ni ; Juejun Hu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Abstract :
We fabricated and characterized chalcogenide glass on CaF2 resonators with a record intrinsic quality factor of 6 × 105, and applied these devices to demonstrate cavity enhanced chemical sensing near 5.2 μm wavelength.
Keywords :
Q-factor; calcium compounds; chalcogenide glasses; chemical sensors; infrared detectors; optical glass; optical resonators; CaF2; CaF2 resonators; cavity enhanced chemical sensing; high-Q mid-infrared chalcogenide glass resonators; quality factor; wavelength 5.2 mum; Ethanol; Glass; Optical ring resonators; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Q-factor; Micro-cavity; Spectroscopy; infrared;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.42
