Abstract
It is shown theoretically that an optical bottle resonator with a nanoscale radius variation can perform a multinanosecond long dispersionless delay of light in a nanometer-order bandwidth with minimal losses. Experimentally, a 3 mm long resonator with a 2.8 nm deep semiparabolic radius variation is fabricated from a 19??µm radius silica fiber with a subangstrom precision. In excellent agreement with theory, the resonator exhibits the impedance-matched 2.58 ns (3 bytes) delay of 100 ps pulses with 0.44??dB/ns intrinsic loss. This is a miniature slow light delay line with the record large delay time, record small transmission loss, dispersion, and effective speed of light.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 163901 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 111 |
Issue number | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17 Oct 2013 |
Bibliographical note
© 2013 American Physical Society. Delay of Light in an Optical Bottle Resonator with Nanoscale Radius Variation: Dispersionless, Broadband, and Low Loss. M. Sumetsky. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 163901 – Published 17 October 2013Keywords
- optical bottle resonator
- miniature slow light delay line