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Narrow-linewidth Fano microcavities with resonant subwavelength grating mirror

Optics 2024-04-16 v1

Abstract

We report on the theoretical and experimental investigations of optical microcavities consisting in the plane-plane arrangement of a broadband high-reflectivity mirror and a suspended one-dimensional grating mirror possessing a high-quality factor Fano resonance. By varying the length of these cavities from the millimeter to the few-micron range, we observe at short lengths the reduction of the spectral linewidth predicted to occur for such a Fano cavity as compared to a conventional broadband mirror cavity with the same length and internal losses. Such narrow linewidth and small modevolume microcavities with high-mechanical quality ultrathin mirrors will be attractive for a wide range of applications within optomechanics and sensing.

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@article{arxiv.2402.05597,
  title  = {Narrow-linewidth Fano microcavities with resonant subwavelength grating mirror},
  author = {Trishala Mitra and Gurpreet Singh and Ali Akbar Darki and Søren Peder Madsen and Aurélien Dantan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05597},
  year   = {2024}
}