Compound Glass Microsphere Resonator Devices

Authors

Jibo Yu, Key Laboratory of In-fiber Integrated Optics of the Ministry of Education, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Elfed Lewis, Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Gerald Farrell, Technological University DublinFollow
Pengfei Wang, Photonics Research Centre, Technological University Dublin, Kevin Street, Dublin, IrelandFollow

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Publication Details

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/9/7/356

Abstract

In recent years, compound glass microsphere resonator devices have attracted increasing interest and have been widely used in sensing, microsphere lasers, and nonlinear optics. Compared with traditional silica resonators, compound glass microsphere resonators have many significant and attractive properties, such as high-Q factor, an ability to achieve high rare earth ion, wide infrared transmittance, and low phonon energy. This review provides a summary and a critical assessment of the fabrication and the optical characterization of compound glasses and the related fabrication and applications of compound glass microsphere resonators.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/mi9070356

Recommended Citation

Yu, J., Lewis, E. & Farrell, G. (2018). Compound Glass Microsphere Resonator Devices. Micromachines, vol. 9, no. 7, pg. 356. doi.org/10.3390/mi9070356