Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 8, 0823019(2021)
Fabrication and Resonance Characteristic Analysis of Spheroid Calcium Fluoride Millimeter Crystalline Microcavity
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
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)