Infrared light detection using a whispering-gallery-mode optical microcavity
Optics
2015-06-19 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We demonstrate a thermal infrared (IR) detector based on an ultra-high-quality-factor (Q) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microtoroidal silica resonator, and investigate its performance to detect IR radiation at 10 micron wavelength. The bandwidth and the sensitivity of the detector are dependent on the power of a probe laser and the detuning between the probe laser and the resonance frequency of the resonator. The microtoroid IR sensor achieved a noise-equivalent-power (NEP) of 7.46 nW, corresponding to IR intensity of 0.095 mW/cm^2
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@article{arxiv.1403.1559,
title = {Infrared light detection using a whispering-gallery-mode optical microcavity},
author = {Jiangang Zhu and Sahin Kaya Ozdemir and Lan Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1559},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, 5 figures, 16 references