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- Title
End-fire injection of guided light into optical microcavity.
- Authors
Liu, Shuai; Gu, Zhiyuan; Zhang, Nan; Wang, Kaiyang; Xiao, Shumin; Lyu, Quan; Song, Qinghai
- Abstract
Coupling light into microdisk plays a key role in a number of applications such as resonant filters and optical sensors. While several approaches have successfully coupled light into microdisk efficiently, most of them suffer from the ultrahigh sensitivity to the environmental vibration. Here, we demonstrate a robust mechanism, which is termed as 'end-fire injection.' By connecting an input waveguide to a circular microdisk directly, the mechanism shows that light can be efficiently coupled into optical microcavity. The coupling efficiency can be as high as 75 % when the input signals are on resonances. Our numerical results reveal that the high coupling efficiency is attributed to the constructive interference between the whispering gallery modes and the input signals. We have also shown that the end-fire injection can be further extended to the long-lived resonances with low refractive index such as n = 1.45. We believe our results will shed light on the applications of optical microcavities.
- Subjects
MICROCAVITY lasers; OPTICAL resonance; ROBUST control; MICRODISC lasers; SIGNAL processing
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2015, Vol 120, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-015-6131-z