Practical Applications of Microresonators in Optics and Photonics

Assembling an international team of experts, this book reports on the progress in the rapidly growing field of monolithic micro- and nanoresonators. The book opens with a chapter on photonic crystal-based resonators (nanocavities). It goes on to describe resonators in which the closed trajectories of light are supported by any variety of total internal reflection in curved and polygonal transparent dielectric structures. The book also covers distributed feedback microresonators for slow light, controllable dispersion, and enhanced nonlinearity. A portion of coverage is dedicated to the unique properties of resonators, which are extremely efficient tools when conducting multiple applications.

Andrey B. Matsko has been a principal engineer with OEwaves Inc. since 2007. He has numerous publications in the field and holds several patents. His current research interests include applications of whispering gallery mode resonators in quantum and nonlinear optics, and photonics, coherence effects in resonant media, and quantum theory of measurements. He received JPL’s Lew Allen Award for excellence in 2005.

Ultrahigh-Q Photonic Crystal Nanocavities and their Applications, T. Tanabe, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, and M. Notomi

Pillar Microcavities for Single-Photon Generation, C. Santori, D. Fattal, J. Vuckovic, M. Pelton, G. S. Solomon, E. Waks, D. Press, and Y. Yamamoto

Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators in Optics and Photonics, L. Maleki, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov, and A. B. Matsko

Microresonator-Based Devices on a Silicon Chip: Novel Shaped Cavities and Resonance Coherent Interference, A. W. Poon, X. Luo, L. Zhou, C. Li, J. Y. Lee, F. Xu, H. Chen, and N. K. Hon

Electro-Optic Polymer Ring Resonators for Millimeter-Wave Modulation and Optical Signal Processing, W. H. Steier, B.-J. Seo, B. Bortnik, H. Tazawa, Y.-C. Hung, S. Kim, and H. R. Fetterman

Organic Micro-Lasers: A New Avenue onto Wave Chaos Physics, M. Lebental, E. Bogomolny, and J. Zyss

Optical Microfiber Loop and Coil Resonators, M. Sumetsky

Optofluidic Ring Resonator Biological and Chemical Sensors, X. Fan, I. M. White, S. I. Shopova, H. Zhu, J. D. Suter, Y. Sun, and G. Yang

A NonElectronic Wireless Receiver with Immunity to Damage by Electromagnetic Pulses, B. Jalali, A. Ayazi, R. Hsu, A. Yick, W. H. Steier, and G. Betts

Cavity Opto-Mechanics, T. J. Kippenberg and K. J. Vahala

Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Monolithic Microresonators, O. Arcizet, A. Schliesser, P. Del’Haye, R. Holzwarth, and T. J. Kippenberg

Bit Rate Limitations in Single and Coupled Microresonators, J. Khurgin

Linear and Nonlinear Localization of Light in Optical Slow-Wave Structures, S. Mookherjea

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