Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 23, 2314004(2023)

All-Optical Control of Ultrahigh-Q Whispering Gallery Microspheres with Laser-Induced Graphene

Xueyang Zhang, Huomu Yang, Guoliang Deng*, and Shouhuan Zhou
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  • College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan, China
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    We present a method for all-optical control of silica whispering-gallery-mode microspheres with laser-induced graphene (LIG). Polyimide (PI) films are carbonized to LIG under CO2 laser irradiation. A 980 nm laser is used as a pump light to irradiate the LIG surface, and the transmission and reflection spectra of microcavities are studied. Experimental results show that the tuning scheme maintains a Q factor of approximately 108 throughout the tuning process, with a tuning range and sensitivity of approximately 1.09 nm and approximately 8.8 pm/mW, respectively. This scheme has the advantages of having no mechanical interference, an ultrahigh-Q factor, and a wide tuning range, thus extending all-optical tuning to applications in cavity quantum dynamics, nonlinear optics, and low-threshold lasers.

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    Xueyang Zhang, Huomu Yang, Guoliang Deng, Shouhuan Zhou. All-Optical Control of Ultrahigh-Q Whispering Gallery Microspheres with Laser-Induced Graphene[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(23): 2314004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Oct. 31, 2022

    Accepted: Jan. 6, 2023

    Published Online: Dec. 8, 2023

    The Author Email: Deng Guoliang (gdeng@scu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP222917

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