Temperature compensation of optical microresonators using a surface layer with negative thermo-optic coefficient
- 19 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 32 (13), 1800-1802
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.32.001800
Abstract
We theoretically investigate the feasibility of using a surface layer with a negative thermo-optic coefficient to compensate the thermal drift of a resonant frequency in an optical microresonator. Taking a fused-silica microsphere as an example, our analysis has shown that the thermal drift of a whisper-gallery mode can be fully compensated by such a surface layer. We analyze and compare the compensation performances by using different materials as the surface layer.Keywords
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