Chalcogenide microresonators tailored to distinct morphologies by the shaping of glasses on silica tapers

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2017
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Aktaş, O.
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Optics Letters
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0146-9592
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OSA - The Optical Society
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42
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5
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907 - 910
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English
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Production of chalcogenide (As2Se3) microresonators in sphere, loop, and bottle morphologies by the shaping of glasses at appropriate temperatures between cleaved silica tapers is reported. The quality factors exceed QS = 6.2×105, QB = 6.7 × 105, and QL = 1.6 × 104 for the sphere, bottle, and loop microresonators, respectively. All-optical thermally assisted tuning with a rate of 0.61 nm/mW is demonstrated for a bottle microcavity pumped via a silica taper at a wavelength of 670 nm. This technique enables practical and robust in situ production of chalcogenide microresonators thermally spliced to silica fibers in several morphologies with a wide tuning range of size.

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