{"title":"Optical microdiscus resonators","authors":"M. Zervas, G. S. Murugan, J. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_SI.2012.CM1M.8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a new “soften-and-squash” method for turning microspheres into high quality, stand-alone microdiscus resonators. Due to the annealing involved in the fabrication process, their measured Q factors are one order of magnitude better than the starting microspheres.","PeriodicalId":6442,"journal":{"name":"2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2012.CM1M.8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a new “soften-and-squash” method for turning microspheres into high quality, stand-alone microdiscus resonators. Due to the annealing involved in the fabrication process, their measured Q factors are one order of magnitude better than the starting microspheres.