Fabrication of Lasing Whispering Gallery Mode Microresonators by Controllable Injection Method

作者:Sun, Hongyi; Chen, Xiaogang; Wang, Haotian; Lu, Qijing; Yang, Hongqin; Xie, Shusen*; Wu, Xiang*
来源:IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017, 9(3): 1503006.
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2702011

摘要

Dye-doped polymer microdroplet resonators were fabricated by injecting dye solutions into a low refractive index UV curable polymer. The self-assembled microdroplets had the various sizes ranging from 5 to 200 mu m. Pumped by a pulse laser, whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) lasing emission from the microresonators was achieved. Experimental results show that the microresonators had the advantages of high-Q factors, low lasing thresholds, and good long-term stabilities. The injection method can provide a promising approach for fabricating the high-Q WGM microresonators, which had some potential applications in the fields of tunable microlasers and on-chip biosensing system.