Strain-based tunable optical microresonator with an in-fiber rectangular air bubble

Shen Liu; Zhongyuan Sun; Lin Zhang; Cailing Fu; Yu Liu; Changrui Liao; Jun He; Zhiyong Bai; Ying Wang; Yiping Wang

doi:10.1364/OL.43.004077

Strain-based tunable optical microresonator with an in-fiber rectangular air bubble

Shen Liu
, Zhongyuan Sun
, Lin Zhang
, Cailing Fu
, Yu Liu
, Changrui Liao
, Jun He
, Zhiyong Bai
, Ying Wang
, Yiping Wang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

Shenzhen University
Aston University
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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Abstract

We demonstrate a strain-based fully tunable, near-lossless, whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator made of an in-fiber rectangular air bubble, which is fabricated by splicing two segments of standard single-mode fibers. Such a resonator, with a 39 μm order radius and 1 μm order wall thickness, contributes to a high quality factor exceeding 10⁶. The tuning in resonant wavelength is achieved by applying tensile strain to the resonator, and the voltage-tuning rate of the WGM resonance peaks is about 31.96 pm/V (strain-tuning rate ∼14.12 pm∕με), and the corresponding tuning accuracy is better than 0.03 pm. Since the tensile strain applied on the resonator can reach 1000 με, the achievable total tunable bandwidth of ∼14.12 nm is more than two times that of its azimuthal free spectral range.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4077-4080
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	43
Issue number	17
Early online date	26 Jul 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.004077
Publication status	Published - 16 Aug 2018

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