Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Microresonators in lithium niobate thin films

RR **e, GQ Li, F Chen, GL Long - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Leveraging the outstanding nonlinear optical properties and the ultra‐high spatial
confinement of light, microresonators based on lithium niobate (LN) thin films have emerged …

Millisecond photon lifetime in a slow-light microcavity

V Huet, A Rasoloniaina, P Guillemé, P Rochard… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Optical microcavities with ultralong photon storage times are of central importance for
integrated nanophotonics. To date, record quality (Q) factors up to 10 11 have been …

Tunable Raman laser in a hollow bottle-like microresonator

Y Chen, ZH Zhou, CL Zou, Z Shen, GC Guo… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A tunable Raman laser in the hollow bottle-like microresonator is demonstrated. By
controlling the pump laser frequency, we have demonstrated continuous Raman laser …

Whispering gallery mode microresonator for nonlinear optics

Y Li, X Jiang, G Zhao, L Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1809.04878, 2018 - arxiv.org
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, benefitting from the ultrahigh quality (Q)
factors and small mode volumes, could considerably enhance the light-matter interaction …

Raman laser switching induced by cascaded light scattering

S Kasumie, F Lei, JM Ward, X Jiang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is shown that, in multimode Raman lasers, cascaded light scattering (CLS) not only
extends the optical frequency range, but can also modulate the laser dynamics. The origin of …

Rapid and high precision measurement of opto-thermal relaxation with pump-probe method

T Wang, XF Liu, Y Hu, G Qin, D Ruan, GL Long - Science Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Opto-thermal relaxation is one of the most important properties of nonlinear optical
materials. Rapid and high precision measurement of this parameter is vital in both …

Demonstration of Yb3+-doped and Er3+/Yb3+-codoped on-chip microsphere lasers

YQ Hu, X Mao, H Yang, M Wang, GQ Qin, GL Long - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Rare-earth-doped on-chip microlasers are of great significance in both fundamental
research and engineering. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of Yb^ 3+ …

Phase-controlled dual-wavelength resonance in a self-coupling whispering-gallery-mode microcavity

RR **e, GQ Qin, H Zhang, M Wang, GQ Li, D Ruan… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report a novel, to the best of our knowledge, way to achieve phase-controlled dual-
wavelength resonance based on whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities …

Gain lifetime characterization through time-resolved stimulated emission in a whispering-gallery mode microresonator

XF Liu, F Lei, TJ Wang, GL Long, C Wang - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
The precise measurement of gain lifetime at a specific wavelength holds significant
importance for understanding the properties of photonic devices and further improving their …