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Degenerate four-wave mixing in a silica hollow bottle-like microresonator

2016; Optica Publishing Group; Volume: 41; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1364/ol.41.000575

1539-4794

Yong Yang, Yuta Ooka, Ruth M. Thompson, Jonathan Ward, Síle Nic Chormaic,

Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors

A hollow bottle-like microresonator (BLMR) with ultra-high quality factor is fabricated from a microcapillary with nearly parabolic profile. At 1.55 $\mu m$ pumping, degenerate four-wave mixing can be observed for a BLMR of diameter 102 $\mu$m. The parabolic profile of the BLMR guarantees a nearly zero waveguide dispersion, which is theoretically discussed in detail. From the simulation, at 1.55 $\mu$m wavelength in such a BLMR, the fundamental bottle mode is in the anomalous dispersion regime, whilst the ordinary whispering gallery mode (WGM) confined at the center of the BLMR is in the normal dispersion regime. Experimentally, no degenerate FWM is observed for the WGM selected by positioning the coupling tapered fiber in the same BLMR. Furthermore, dispersion tuning is briefly discussed. As the work predicted, the BLMR shows promise for the implementation of sparsely distributed, widely spanned frequency combs at the telecommunication wavelength.