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Cavity Ring-Up Spectroscopy for Dissipative and Dispersive Sensing in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator

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In whispering gallery mode resonator sensing applications, the conventional way to detect a change in the parameter to be measured is by observing the steady-state transmission spectrum through the coupling waveguide. Alternatively, sensing based on cavity ring-up spectroscopy, i.e. CRUS, can be achieved transiently. In this work, we investigate CRUS using coupled mode equations and find analytical solutions with a large spectral broadening approximation of the input pulse. The relationships between the frequency detuning, coupling gap and ring-up peak height are determined and experimentally verified using an ultrahigh Q-factor silica microsphere. This work shows that distinctive dispersive and dissipative transient sensing can be realised by simply measuring the peak height of the CRUS signal, which may improve the data collection rate.

This article is part of the topical collection “Enlightening the World with the Laser” - Honoring T. W. Hänsch guest edited by Tilman Esslinger, Nathalie Picqué, and Thomas Udem.

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This work was supported by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Y.Y. and R.M. made equal contributions to this work.

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  1. Light-Matter Interactions Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, 904-0495, Japan

    Yong Yang, Ramgopal Madugani, Sho Kasumie, Jonathan M. Ward & Síle Nic Chormaic

  2. National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optics Sensing Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Yong Yang

  3. Physics Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Ramgopal Madugani

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Yang, Y., Madugani, R., Kasumie, S., Ward, J.M., Nic Chormaic, S. (2018). Cavity Ring-Up Spectroscopy for Dissipative and Dispersive Sensing in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator. In: Meschede, D., Udem, T., Esslinger, T. (eds) Exploring the World with the Laser. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_34

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