Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

422 Million intrinsic quality factor planar integrated all-waveguide resonator with sub-MHz linewidth

  • Matthew W. Puckett,
  • Kaikai Liu,
  • Nitesh Chauhan,
  • Qiancheng Zhao,
  • Naijun Jin,
  • Haotian Cheng,
  • Jianfeng Wu,
  • Ryan O. Behunin,
  • Peter T. Rakich,
  • Karl D. Nelson,
  • Daniel J. Blumenthal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21205-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Integrated photonic all-waveguide resonators are a critical component in many future applications. Here the authors develop an optimized photonic all-waveguide resonator with an ultra-high quality factor, Q, of almost half a billion, and a narrow sub-MHz linewidth.