Brillouin lasing in coupled silica toroid microcavities

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作者
Honda, Yoshihiro [1 ]
Yoshiki, Wataru [1 ]
Tetsumoto, Tomohiro [1 ]
Fujii, Shun [1 ]
Furusawa, Kentaro [2 ]
Sekine, Norihiko [2 ]
Tanabe, Takasumi [1 ]
机构
[1] Keio Univ, Fac Sci & Technol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Kohoku Ku, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2238522, Japan
[2] Natl Inst Informat & Commun Technol, Adv ICT Res Inst, 4-2-1 Nukuikitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 1848795, Japan
关键词
FREQUENCY COMB; FIBER-LASER; GENERATION; SCATTERING; RESONATOR;
D O I
10.1063/1.5021062
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
We demonstrate stimulated Brillouin scattering lasing in a strongly coupled microcavity system. By coupling two silica toroid microcavities, we achieve large mode splitting of 11 GHz, whose frequency separation matches the Brillouin frequency shift of silica. The stimulated Brillouin scattering light is resonantly amplified by pumping at the higher frequency side of the supermode splitting resonance. Since the mode splitting is adjusted by changing the gap distance between the two cavities, our system does not require precise control of a mm-sized cavity diameter to match the free-spectral spacing with the Brillouin frequency shift. It also allows us to use a small cavity, and hence, our system has the potential to achieve the lasing threshold at a very low power. Published by AIP Publishing.
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