We report on a joint theoretical and experimental study of an analogue of the Lamb shift in the photonic framework. The platform is an integrated photonic device consisting of a single mode waveguide vertically coupled to a disk-shaped microresonator. The presence of a neighboring waveguide induces a reactive inter-mode coupling in the resonator, an effect analogous to an off-diagonal Lamb shift from atomic physics. Waveguide mediated coupling of different radial families results in peculiar Fano lineshapes in the waveguide transmission spectra, which manifests for different relative frequency shifts of the modes at different azimuthal numbers. Finally, a non-linear model for the dinamic tuning of the Fano lineshape under continuous wave pumping conditions is proposed.
Typical UHQ resonators, microspheres and microtoroids, lack the possibility of integration into lightwave circuits due to their planarity constrains. In this context, CMOS-compatible alternatives in the form of wedge resonators have been proposed. However, the mode retraction from the wedge cavity inhibits the possibility to side couple with integrated waveguides and therefore, halts the full integration within a planar lightwave circuit. In this work, we propose and demonstrate experimentally the complete integration of wedge resonators with vertically coupled dielectric bus waveguides. This coupling scheme permits to use arbitrary gaps, geometries and materials, enables simplified and precise control of the light injection into the cavity and opens the door to an industrial mass-fabrication of UHQ resonators.
We report on the realization and characterization of a silicon-based integrated optical platform which implements a vertical coupling scheme between a Whispering-gallery type microresonator and a buried dielectric waveguide. The vertical coupling allows for the separation of the resonator and the waveguide into different planes, which enables the realization of the optical components in different materials/thicknesses. The high optical quality of this micro-optical system follows from the accurate planarization of the waveguide topography, which is achieved by multiple depositions-and-reflows of a borophosphosilicate glass over strip waveguides. Importantly, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach for wafer-scale mass fabrication of freestanding planar resonators suspended in air and coupled to integrated bus waveguides. This opens the door for the realization of stable all-integrated resonator systems and it has the potential to substitute todays complicated fiber-taper coupling schemes.
We report on the realization and characterization of a silicon-based integrated optical platform which implements a
vertical coupling scheme between a Whispering-gallery type microresonator and a buried dielectric waveguide. The
vertical coupling allows for the separation of the resonator and the waveguide into different planes, which enables one to
realize the optical components in different materials/thicknesses. The high optical quality of this cavity micro-optical
system follows from the accurate planarization of the waveguide topography, which is achieved by multiple depositions-and-
reflows of a borophosphosilicate glass over strip waveguides. Importantly, we demonstrate the feasibility of our
approach for wafer-scale mass fabrication of freestanding planar resonators suspended in air and coupled to integrated
bus waveguides. This opens the door for the realization of stable all-integrated resonator systems for optomechanical and
metrological applications and has the potential to substitute today's complicated fiber-taper coupling schemes.
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