Abstract

Ultra-high-quality (UHQ) factor optical cavities have numerous applications throughout engineering and science. Incorporating active elements into these UHQ cavities to create dynamic devices would extend their applicability; however, it is inherently difficult to develop an active UHQ device. Ultra-thin films formed from optically active polymers provide one route to overcome this limitation. In the present work, hybrid devices composed of UHQ planar optical cavities with ultra-thin films are fabricated on a silicon wafer. Using finite element method simulations, the optical field overlap between the cavity and the polymer film is modeled and experimentally verified using two polymers: poly(methyl methacrylate) and polystyrene. These hybrid devices have demonstrated material-limited Q factors above 107.

© 2010 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
OSA Recommended Articles
Replica-molded high-Q polymer microresonators

Andrea L. Martin, Deniz K. Armani, Lan Yang, and Kerry J. Vahala
Opt. Lett. 29(6) 533-535 (2004)

Thermal nonlinear effects in hybrid silica/polymer microdisks

Carsten Schmidt, Arkadi Chipouline, Thomas Käsebier, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, and Thomas Pertsch
Opt. Lett. 35(20) 3351-3353 (2010)

High-Q Si microresonators formed by substrate transfer on silica waveguide wafers

W. Ng, T. Rockwood, D. Persechini, and D. Chang
Opt. Express 18(26) 27004-27015 (2010)

More Recommended Articles

References

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Citation lists with outbound citation links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access OSA Member Subscription

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access OSA Member Subscription

Figures (3)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access OSA Member Subscription

Tables (1)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article tables are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access OSA Member Subscription

Metrics

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article level metrics are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access OSA Member Subscription