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Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology pp 39–70Cite as

MICRO-OPTICAL RESONATORS FOR MICROLASERS AND INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ((NAII,volume 216))

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Optical microcavities trap light in compact volumes by the mechanisms of almost total internal reflection or distributed Bragg reflection, enable light amplification, and select out specific (resonant) frequencies of light that can be emitted or coupled into optical guides, and lower the thresholds of lasing. Such resonators have radii from 1 to 100 μm and can be fabricated in a wide range of materials. Devices based on optical resonators are essential for cavity-quantum-electro-dynamic experiments, frequency stabilization, optical filtering and switching, light generation, biosensing, and nonlinear optics.

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Benson, T.M., Boriskina, S.V., Sewell, P., Vukovic, A., Greedy, S.C., Nosich, A.I. (2006). MICRO-OPTICAL RESONATORS FOR MICROLASERS AND INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS. In: Janz, S., Ctyroky, J., Tanev, S. (eds) Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 216. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4167-5_02

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