Permanent matching of coupled optical bottle resonators with better than 0.16 GHz precision

N.A. Toropov, M. Sumetsky*

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Abstract

The fabrication precision is one of the most critical challenges to the creation of practical photonic circuits composed of coupled high Q-factor microresonators. While very accurate transient tuning of microresonators based on local heating has been reported, the record precision of permanent resonance positioning achieved by post-processing is still within 1 and 5 GHz. Here we demonstrate two coupled bottle microresonators fabricated at the fiber surface with resonances that are matched with a better than 0.16 GHz precision. This corresponds to a better than 0.17 Å precision in the effective fiber radius variation. The achieved fabrication precision is only limited by the resolution of our optical spectrum analyzer and can be potentially improved by an order of magnitude.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2278-2281
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume41
Issue number10
Early online date19 Apr 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 May 2016

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Funding: Royal Society (WM130110); Horizon 2020 (H2020-EU.1.3.3, 691011); British Council Researcher Links (164861753)

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