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Real-time observation of the thermo-optical and heat dissipation processes in microsphere resonators
Author(s) -
Haidong Zhou,
Bowen Xiao,
Ningning Yang,
Shixing Yuan,
Song Zhu,
Yuhua Duan,
Lei Shi,
Chi Zhang,
Chi Zhang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.408568
Subject(s) - optics , resonator , whispering gallery wave , materials science , nanosecond , wavelength , resonance (particle physics) , temporal resolution , dissipation , spectroscopy , photonics , laser , optoelectronics , physics , particle physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
This work reports the real-time observation of the thermo-optical dynamics in silica microsphere resonators based on the dispersive time stretch technique. In general, the thermo-optical dynamics of silica microsphere resonators, including the thermal refraction and thermal expansion, can be characterized by the resonance wavelength shift, whose duration is at the millisecond timescale. However, this fast wavelength shift process cannot be directly captured by conventional spectroscopy, and only its transmission feature can be characterized by a fast-scanning laser and an intensity detector. With the advance of the time-stretch spectroscopy, whose temporal resolution is up to tens of nanoseconds, the thermo-optical dynamics can be observed in a more straight-forward way, by utilizing the pump-probe technology and mapping the resonance wavelength to the time domain. Here, the thermo-optical dynamics are explored as a function of the power and the scanning rate of the pump laser. Theoretical simulations reproduce the experimental results, revealing that the thermo-optical dynamics of silica microsphere resonators is dominated by the fast thermo-optical effect and the slow heat dissipation process to the surroundings, which leads to gradual regression of the resonance wavelength. This work provides an alternative solution for studying the thermo-optical dynamics in whispering gallery mode microresonators, which would be crucial for future applications of microresonator photonic systems.

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