Practical Applications of Microresonators in Optics and Photonics

Assembling an international team of experts, this book reports on the progress in the rapidly growing field of monolithic micro- and nanoresonators. The book opens with a chapter on photonic crystal-based resonators (nanocavities). It goes on to describe resonators in which the closed trajectories of light are supported by any variety of total internal reflection in curved and polygonal transparent dielectric structures. The book also covers distributed feedback microresonators for slow light, controllable dispersion, and enhanced nonlinearity. A portion of coverage is dedicated to the unique properties of resonators, which are extremely efficient tools when conducting multiple applications. Table of ContentIntroduction. Ultra-high photonic crystal nanocavities and their applications. Pillar microcavities. Crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators in optic and photonics. Silicon microring and microdisk resonator passive and active devices: novel cavity shapes and resonance control. Active semiconductor microresonators. Silicon micro-ring resonators for manipulating light on a microelectronic chip. Electro-optic polymer ring resonators for millimeter-wave modulation and optical signal processing. Polymer ring microlasers. Distributed microresonators for slow light, controllable dispersion and enhanced nonlinearity. Dispersion limitations of coupled micro-resonator structures. Densely integrated optical microresonator bases components for the access network. Optofluidic ring resonator sensors. All-Dielectric photonic-assisted radio front-end technology. Nonlinear optics and application of crystalline WGM resonators. Undecided. Biographical NoteAndrey B. Matsko has been a principal engineer with OEwaves Inc. since 2007. He has numerous publications in the field and holds several patents. His current research interests include applications of whispering gallery mode resonators in quantum and nonlinear optics, and photonics, coherence effects in resonant media, and quantum theory of measurements. He received JPL’s Lew Allen Award for excellence in 2005.