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Optical microcavity

About: Optical microcavity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2599 publications have been published within this topic receiving 72125 citations. The topic is also known as: optical microcavities.


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TL;DR: The fabrication and characterization of a dielectric, anisotropic optical microcavity based on nonpolar ZnO that implements a non-Hermitian system and mimics the behavior of Voigt points in natural crystals, paving the way for exploiting exceptional points in widespread optoelectronic devices such as vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and resonant cavity light emitting diodes.
Abstract: Voigt points represent propagation directions in anisotropic crystals along which optical modes degenerate, leading to a single circularly polarized eigenmode. They are a particular class of exceptional points. Here, we report the fabrication and characterization of a dielectric, anisotropic optical microcavity based on nonpolar ZnO that implements a non-Hermitian system and mimics the behavior of Voigt points in natural crystals. We prove the exceptional-point nature by monitoring the complex-square-root topology of the mode eigenenergies (real and imaginary parts) around the Voigt points. Polarization state analysis shows that these artificially engineered Voigt points behave as vortex cores for the linear polarization and sustain chiral modes. Our findings apply to any planar microcavity with broken cylindrical symmetry and, thus, pave the way for exploiting exceptional points in widespread optoelectronic devices such as vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and resonant cavity light emitting diodes.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the smallest possible whispering-gallery-like mode (WGM) formed in a free-standing square-lattice photonic-crystal slab single-defect cavity is studied by using the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method.
Abstract: The smallest possible whispering-gallery-like mode (WGM) formed in a free-standing square-lattice photonic-crystal slab single-defect cavity is studied by using the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method. The WGM is nondegenerate and the only existing resonant mode in the transverse electric mode bandgap of the square lattice. High-quality factors are achieved from this mode by suppressing both the in-plane and the out-of-plane optical losses. By optimizing the structural parameters, a total quality factor of 18 000 and a vertical quality factor of 40 000 are obtained from the WGM. The quality factor does not decrease significantly in the presence of a current flow path at the center of the cavity due to the null of electromagnetic energy at the cavity center, which means this mode is advantageous to achieve electrically pumped photonic-crystal lasers. In addition, by combining the high-quality factor with wavelength-size small-mode volume, very high Purcell factors >8000 are achieved, the largest value ever reported. The WGM of the square-lattice single-defect cavity is promising for both cavity quantum electrodynamics research and the low-threshold microcavity laser.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a bidirectional coupled mode theory (CMT) based on the guided fixed-frequency modes of the two port waveguides and the cavity segment is proposed to solve for the power transmission of the resonators.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a data transparent reconfigurable optical interconnection system based on optical injection controlled polarization switching in a master-slave vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) configuration is demonstrated.
Abstract: We demonstrate a data transparent reconfigurable optical interconnection system based on optical injection controlled polarization switching in a master-slave vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) configuration. A 140-Mb/s data stream generated by the slave VCSEL is redirected by an anisotropic diffractive optical element depending on the polarization state of the emitted light. The polarization of the slave laser is controlled by injecting an orthogonally polarized optical signal from a master laser. The current modulation of the master VCSEL and the subsequent polarization switching of the slave VCSEL occur at 40 MHz. In our setup, both the data rate and the optical interconnection reconfiguration rate are limited by the electronic drive circuitry and could in principle attain the gigahertz range.

37 citations

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TL;DR: A ytterbium-doped silica microcavity laser demonstrates stable laser emission while completely submerged in water, to be the first solid-state laser whose cavity mode interacts with water.
Abstract: A ytterbium-doped silica microcavity laser demonstrates stable laser emission while completely submerged in water. To our knowledge, it is the first solid-state laser whose cavity mode interacts with water. The device generates more than 2 microW of output power. The laser performance is presented, and low-concentration biosensing is discussed as a potential application.

37 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202317
202220
202152
202063
201990
201846