Q>100 million microresonators on silicon chips and application to
micro-Raman and -OPO sources, and new opto-mechanical RF oscillators
A novel laser processing method has been applied to create optical micro-resonators having Q factors as high as 500 million on silicon
wafers. The combination of Ultra-high-Q and small mode volume opens up new applications for wafer based resonators. In this talk I will
first review the processing and passive optical properties of these devices and then describe their application to demonstrate micro
Raman and micro OPOs on a chip as well as rare-earth-doped lasers on silicon. Finally, I will describe recent results concerning
observation of micro-mechanical oscillation at RF rates in these structures.
