Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Nonlinear optical bistability in microring resonators for enhanced phase sensing |
| Authors: |
Tritschler, Patrick, Schweikert, Christian, Klenk, Rouven H., Abdani, Simon, Sözen, Onur, Vogel, Wolfgang, Rademacher, Georg, Ohms, Torsten, Zimmermann, André, Degenfeld-Schonburg, Peter |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: |
Physics - Optics, Physics - Applied Physics |
| More Details: |
Photonic microring resonators are used in a variety of chip-integrated sensing applications where they allow to measure transmission intensity changes upon external signals with a sensitivity that scales linearly with the Q-factor. In this work, we suggest to exploit the nonlinear self-phase-modulation effect to increase the overall sensitivity by an additional gain factor appearing when the operational point of the nonlinear resonator is chosen just at the cross-over from the mono- to the bistable regime. We present the theoretical idea together with a first proof of concept experiment displaying a gain factor of 22 on a chip-integrated silicon-nitride resonator. |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06247 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2408.06247 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
