Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 8, 0823019(2021)

Fabrication and Resonance Characteristic Analysis of Spheroid Calcium Fluoride Millimeter Crystalline Microcavity

Mengyu Wang1,2, Yu Yang2, Tao Wu1、*, Bin Liu1, Yanjun Fu1, and Keyi Wang2、**
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test of Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330063, China
  • 2Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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    Compared with glass microcavity, a calcium fluoride (CaF2) crystalline microcavity has the advantages of small absorption coefficient, fewer defects, higher purity, and being insensitive to ambient humidity. It has potential applications in microwave photonics, gyroscopes, and nonlinear optics. In this paper, a spheroid CaF2 millimeter crystalline microcavity is fabricated by the ultra-precision machining technology. To fabricate such a microcavity, a home-made precision machining system is developed. The shape of the fabricated microcavity is a spheroid, and the surface roughness of the edge of the microcavity is as low as 1.97 nm. Efficient coupling between the tapered fiber waveguide and the CaF2 crystalline microcavity is achieved. The coupling system exhibits an ultra-high-quality (Q) factor up to ~10 8 and a free-spectral-range as low as ~0.03 nm. These results demonstrate that the fabrication method for the CaF2 crystalline microcavity is significant, and can promote its applications. The characteristics of CaF2 crystalline microcavity also prove its potential in optical filter, cavity quantum electrodynamics, nonlinear optics, and optical gyroscope.

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    Mengyu Wang, Yu Yang, Tao Wu, Bin Liu, Yanjun Fu, Keyi Wang. Fabrication and Resonance Characteristic Analysis of Spheroid Calcium Fluoride Millimeter Crystalline Microcavity[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(8): 0823019

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Devices

    Received: Jun. 1, 2020

    Accepted: Jul. 6, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 20, 2021

    The Author Email: Wu Tao (wutccnu@nchu.edu.cn), Wang Keyi (kywang@ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0823019

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